Resource Tagging and Grouping for Cloud Infrastructure Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing computing resources in service provider networks is complex due to the large number of resources utilized by customers across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, making it difficult for customers to obtain operational status information for resources providing specific functionality.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a resource tagging service and resource groups service that allows customers to create and associate tags with computing resources, enabling the collection, filtering, and organization of resources, and defining resource groups based on common tags or attributes, which can be shared and evaluated for various functionalities such as user access, billing, and configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If customers utilize large numbers of computing resources across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, then the functionality and capability of the service provider network is improved, but the complexity of managing and obtaining operational status information about these resources increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces resource groups as an intermediary layer between individual computing resources and customers. Resource groups aggregate multiple computing resources across different data centers and services into a unified manageable entity, allowing customers to obtain operational status information and perform management actions at the group level rather than individually for each resource.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customers utilize large numbers of computing resources from multiple network services and data centers, then the service capability is enhanced, but the difficulty of obtaining operational status information about related resources increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges operational status information from multiple disparate computing resources into a unified view through resource groups. The system consolidates status data from resources across different data centers and network services, presenting it as a single coherent operational status for the entire resource group, thereby reducing the difficulty of detecting and measuring operational status.
3Productivity
If computing resources are distributed across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, then the scalability and availability of services are improved, but the complexity of resource management and organization increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements resource groups as a universal management mechanism that works across all geographically dispersed data centers and various types of computing resources. The same resource group structure and management interface can be applied universally to organize resources regardless of their location, type, or the network service they belong to, thereby managing complexity while maintaining scalability and availability.
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AI summary
A resource tagging service allows resource tags to be created and associated with computing resources in a service provider network. The resource tags can be utilized to search, collect, filter, organize and otherwise manage computing resources in the service provider network having matching tags, and/or to perform other types of functionality. A resource groups service allows customers and/or other users of the service provider network to view and access collections of computing resources that share common resource tags and/or other attributes. Resource groups can also be evaluated in order to identify computing resources in a service provider network for which certain types of actions or other functionality is to be performed. Membership of resource groups can also be evaluated over time and inferences can be drawn from the membership and from operational information associated with the member computing resources.