US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Management of operating system software using read-only multi-attach block volumes" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,136, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Management of operating system software using read-only multi-attach block volumes" was invented by Amit Shah (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating system, or operating system update, management service uses a shared read-only multi-attach volume of a block-based storage service to distribute operating systems or operating system updates to a set of virtualized computing instances. Also, to store launch specific information, that is specific to a given virtualized computing instance, additional writable volumes are used, wherein a w...