17958084. CUSTOMER-INITIATED VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SHARING simplified abstract (Amazon Technologies, Inc.)

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CUSTOMER-INITIATED VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SHARING

Organization Name

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Nikolay Krasilnikov of Seattle WA (US)

Benjamin Wojtowicz of San Francisco CA (US)

CUSTOMER-INITIATED VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SHARING - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17958084 titled 'CUSTOMER-INITIATED VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SHARING

Simplified Explanation

The abstract describes techniques for customer-initiated virtual machine resource allocation sharing in a cloud provider network. The hardware virtualization service of the network receives a request to launch a virtual machine, allocates resources between the virtual machines, and launches them on a host computer system.

  • The hardware virtualization service of a cloud provider network receives a request to launch a virtual machine.
  • The virtual machine is of a specific type with a pre-allocated amount of resources.
  • The virtual machine is launched on a host computer system within the network.
  • The host computer system shares the allocated resources between the launched virtual machine and another virtual machine of the same type.

Potential Applications

This technology can be applied in cloud computing environments to efficiently allocate and share resources among virtual machines, optimizing performance and resource utilization.

Problems Solved

1. Efficient resource allocation in cloud computing environments. 2. Optimizing resource utilization among virtual machines of the same type.

Benefits

1. Improved performance of virtual machines. 2. Enhanced resource utilization in cloud environments. 3. Simplified resource allocation management for customers.

Potential Commercial Applications

Optimized resource allocation and sharing technology can be utilized by cloud service providers to offer more efficient and cost-effective services to their customers.

Possible Prior Art

One possible prior art could be the use of virtual machine resource management tools in cloud computing environments to allocate and share resources among virtual machines.

Unanswered Questions

How does this technology impact the scalability of cloud computing environments?

This article does not address how the described resource allocation and sharing techniques affect the scalability of cloud provider networks.

What security measures are in place to protect the shared resources between virtual machines?

The article does not discuss the security measures implemented to safeguard the shared resources between virtual machines in the cloud provider network.


Original Abstract Submitted

Techniques for customer-initiated virtual machine resource allocation sharing are described. A hardware virtualization service of a cloud provider network receives a request to launch a first virtual machine, wherein the first virtual machine is of a first virtual machine type, the first virtual machine type having a resource amount allocated to virtual machines of the first virtual machine type. The hardware virtualization service causes a launch of the first virtual machine on a host computer system of the cloud provider network. The host computer system shares an allocation of the resource amount from a corresponding resource of the host computer system between the first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, wherein the second virtual machine is of the first virtual machine type.