ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,141, issued on June 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).
"Dynamic instance selection and allocation" was invented by Akhil Raj Azhikodan (Seattle), Gunjan Garg (Bothell, Wash.) and Narayan Agrawal (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein can allocate resources in such a way that sufficient capacity will be provided to perform a job or task, while minimizing any excess capacity included with those allocated resources. A number of jobs can be performed with differently sized resource instances in some embodiments, to determine an instance size, from a set of available sizes, that ...