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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Armaan Sood, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sam Detjen, Redmond, WA (US);
Rodrigo Siqueira De Souza, Redmond, WA (US);
Hanumantha R Kodavalla, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishnan Sundaram, Redmond, WA (US);
Hari Sudan Sundar, Redmond, WA (US);
Sreekanth Kolla, Redmond, WA (US);
Tamara Hass, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
According to examples, a cloud platform implementing a tiered storage that decouples Request Units from storage is disclosed. Data received from partitions that are characterized by corresponding partition keys is stored to the local storage medium of a virtual machine (VM) as hot data. The received data is formatted as immutable segments and stored to a disaggregated storage medium shared by a plurality of VMs. The immutable segments are grouped into sorted runs within the disaggregated storage medium and are further assigned to different levels. The hot data is deleted from a local storage medium when time-to-cold (TTC) criteria are met. The cold data can be accessed for document retrieval via a search key that includes a partition key and a documentID. Additional Request Units can be allocated or de-allocated for a portion of the cold data without moving the cold data.