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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Alphonse Kurian, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chandrasekhar Pasupuleti, Issaquah, WA (US);
Arpan Kumar Asthana, Bothell, WA (US);
Pushpraj Agrawal, Jr., Redmond, WA (US);
Humayun Mukhtar Khan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A cloud-computing system dynamically manages allocation of infrastructure nodes and compute nodes in an edge zone of the cloud-computing system. The edge zone begins with a first number of infrastructure nodes and a second number of compute nodes. As the edge zone executes customer workloads, the cloud-computing system determines whether the infrastructure nodes are over utilized or under utilized. When the infrastructure nodes are under utilized, the cloud-computing system re-assigns an infrastructure node to the compute nodes. When the infrastructure nodes are over utilized, the cloud-computing system re-assigns a compute node to the infrastructure nodes. In this way, the cloud-computing system dynamically maintains an optimal balance between resources devoted to supporting the edge zone (the infrastructure nodes) and resources devoted to executing customer workloads (the compute nodes). In other words, the cloud-computing system continually maximizes use of edge zone resources for executing the customer workloads while maintaining necessary infrastructure.