ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,424, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Generational management of compute resource pools" was invented by Malcolm Featonby (Sammamish, Wash.), Saloni Sonpal (Seattle) and Axel David Velazquez (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for managing a pool of compute resources usable to execute user codes such as containerized software applications. The pool may include a plurality of sub-pools of compute instances that are each suited to handle a specific type of code execution requests and/or a specific set of capacity or resource configurations. For example, when a code e...