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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sachin Subraya Pandit, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qun Guo, Seattle, WA (US);
Pankaj Arora, Sammamish, WA (US);
Shize Xu, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkat Parthasarathy, San Jose, CA (US);
Ajay Kalhan, Redmond, WA (US);
John M. Oslake, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices are described for managing cloud services implemented by one or more clusters in a cloud computing environment. Responsive to receiving a first notification indicating that a cloud service implemented by the one or more clusters has not been used for a first predetermined amount of time, the cloud service is maintained in an active state and metadata is updated that specifies the cloud service is in a deactivated state. The metadata is visible to a user interface of a management portal of the cloud computing environment. Responsive to receiving a second notification indicating that the cloud service has not been used for a second predetermined amount of time following the first predetermined amount of time, a deactivation workflow is instantiated to deactivate the cloud service. In a further aspect, a cloud service engine generates the first and second notifications.