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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2011
Nicholas J. Lynch, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas J. Lynch, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc, Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments related to the fulfillment of requests for computing capacity. In one embodiment, a request queue includes requests from customers for computing resources to be allocated. Individual ones of the computing resources are allocated to individual ones of the customers based at least in part on requested availability times, device parameters, and at least one allocation rule. Another request for allocating a computing resource for a first customer is added to the request queue. At least one computing resource from a second customer is reallocated to the first customer in response to the other request.