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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2022
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Kumar Deepak Syam Kallakuri, Fremont, CA (US);
Malcolm Featonby, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for enabling a container service of a cloud provider network to detect imbalances of container placements across a selected set of availability zones (AZs) and to automatically rebalance placement of the containers, if needed. An actual distribution of containers may differ from an expected distribution according to a configured placement strategy, e.g., due to an outage or other operational issue affecting one or more of the AZs, scaling operations over time, and the like. In these and other scenarios, the container service can rebalance placement of the containers by terminating one or more containers in one or more of the AZs and launching additional containers in one or more other AZs to restore a more desirable balance. The periodic rebalancing of containers in this manner improves a container-based application's ability to load balance demand and further improves application availability by ensuring sufficient capacity is spread across multiple AZs.