Microsoft patents tool to auto-split cloud servers across regions
Microsoft describes a system that automatically spreads virtual servers across different geographic data centers when a user requests a new cloud environment. The software checks the available capacity in each region and decides how many servers to build in each location to meet the user's specific resource needs.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, apparatuses, and products for automatic deployment of a multi-region cloud fleet, including: receiving a request to generate a cloud fleet in a cloud computing environment, wherein the request comprises: data indicating a plurality of selectable regions for the cloud fleet and a resource allocation indicating an amount of computational resources to be allocated for the cloud fleet; determining, based at least on a capacity of the plurality of selectable regions, a cloud computing instance distribution across at least one region of the plurality of selectable regions and satisfying the resource allocation, wherein the cloud computing instance distribution describes, for each region of the at least one region, a corresponding group of cloud computing instances to be created for the cloud fleet; and creating, in each region of the at least one region, the corresponding group of cloud computing instances described in the cloud computing instance distribution.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of automatic deployment of a multi-region cloud fleet, comprising: receiving a request to generate a cloud fleet in a cloud computing environment, wherein the request comprises: data indicating a plurality of selectable regions for the cloud fleet and a resource allocation indicating an amount of computational resources to be allocated for the cloud fleet; determining, based at least on a capacity of the plurality of selectable regions, a cloud computing instance distribution across at least one region of the plurality of selectable regions and satisfying the resource allocation, wherein the cloud computing instance distribution describes, for each region of the at least one region, a corresponding group of cloud computing instances to be created for the cloud fleet; and creating, in each region of the at least one region, the corresponding group of cloud computing instances described in the cloud computing instance distribution.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- AUTOMATIC DEPLOYMENT OF A MULTI-REGION CLOUD FLEET
- Publication number
- US20260280977A1
- Application number
- 19081665
- Filed
- Mar 17, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 41/0806 Electricity & electronicsH04L 41/5003 Electricity & electronicsMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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