Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing regional failover via DNS queries
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Application No.: US17643813Application Date: 2021-12-10
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Publication No.: US12009968B1Publication Date: 2024-06-11
- Inventor: Samir Abed , Abhineet Bansal , Donavan Miller , Oren Nachman , Tsz Him Chiu
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- Main IPC: H04L41/0686
- IPC: H04L41/0686 ; H04L41/0668 ; H04L43/0805 ; H04L61/4511 ; H04L67/51 ; H04L67/60

Abstract:
The present disclosure generally relates to a failover management service that can continuously monitor attributes of regional network resources to characterize resource availability per region. The failover management service associates the regional resource availability information with a set of hash values in which each individual hash value is representative a concatenation of a resource identifier and a client identifier associated with one or more individual clients. For individual hash values, the failover management service associates failover information, which is propagated to a DNS service. If a network-resource becomes unavailable, clients can transmit DNS queries including a hash value that discovers the appropriate failover information for the specific network-based resource and client device.
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