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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jason Nelson, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for automatically shutting down idle virtual machines (VMs). One method includes an operation for determining a number of active connections of a VM. The method further includes checking disconnect rules to determine automatic shutting down of the VM. The disconnect rules are based on the number of active connections of the VM, and the disconnect rules define criteria for determining when to shut down the VM automatically. The method further includes, based on determining to automatically shut down the VM, sending a message indicating the VM is inactive to a VM manager program executing at a cloud-service provider. The VM manager program is configured to shut down the VM in response to receiving the message indicating the VM is inactive.