US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Down-sized cluster performance modeling for a tiered data processing service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,707, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Down-sized cluster performance modeling for a tiered data processing service" was invented by Induja Sreekanthan (Mountain View, Calif.), Sriram Subramanian (Mountain View, Calif.), Venu Gopal Nayar (San Jose, Calif.), Athanasios Papathanasiou (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Vijayan Prabhakaran (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for modeling performance of tiered storage of a data processing service given a decrease in the storage capacity of a warm storage tier of the tiered storage are disclosed. Metadata of the warm storage tier is used to trac...