US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 11 for "Rapid-boot instances in a cloud provider network using same-slot auxiliary domains" (American, South African, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,116, issued on March 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Rapid-boot instances in a cloud provider network using same-slot auxiliary domains" was invented by Sean Cameron (Cape Town, South Africa), Aviv David Greenberg (San Jose, Calif.) and James Watson (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing instance local boots in a cloud provider network via auxiliary domains are described. An auxiliary compute instance is launched and attached to a local storage device of the computing device. The auxiliary compute instance can pre-warm a boot volume by fetching its data from a remote sys...