According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented method includes allocating a set of computing resources to a first partition from a plurality of partitions in a computer server, and monitoring a usage duration of the set of computing resources by the first partition. The method further includes generating a billing statement based on the usage duration of the computing resources by the first partition. The method further includes detecting an abnormal event in operation of the first partition and adjusting one or more settings of the set of computing resources to increase processing capacity associated with the first partition to complete the abnormal event. The method further includes monitoring a first usage duration of the computing resources during completion of the abnormal event and adjusting the usage duration of based on the first usage duration, and adjusting the billing statement using the adjusted usage duration.

Systems and methods for streaming billing data associated with third-party network resources consumed by a managed network to a remote network management platform are disclosed. Streaming of billing usage data associated with third-party resources may use resource identifiers to associate resources with line items in a service bill generated by the third-party network. A proxy server in the managed network may intermediate streaming from the third-party network to a remote server in a computational instance of the remote network management platform. Billing data may be recorded partly in a metric-base database configured for storing time series data corresponding to usage quantities of third-party resources consumed by the managed network per unit time, and partly in a static records database configured for storing database records associated with the time series data, and including data for identifying the third-party resources and for recording static information relating to billing for the third-party resources.

Methods and systems for managing the utilization of cloud computing resources are described. The system monitors cloud computing resource utilization for a first set of active jobs to determine real-time utilization data. The system compares the real-time utilization data with historic utilization data to generate a utilization pattern and determines future cloud computing resource utilization for at least one future time period based on the utilization pattern and a second set of scheduled jobs. The system further generates a pricing matrix for utilizing the cloud computing resources during a future time period based on the determined future cloud computing resource utilization. The pricing matrix includes prices associated with utilization of the cloud computing resources for each of the at least one future time period. The system transmits the pricing matrix to one or more devices requesting utilization of the cloud computing resources.

Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications for those groups, such as by specifying which source nodes are allowed to transmit data to particular destinations nodes. In addition, determinations of whether initiated data transmissions from source nodes to destination nodes are authorized may be dynamically negotiated for and recorded for later use in automatically authorizing future such data transmissions without negotiation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Systems and methods for streaming billing data associated with third-party network resources consumed by a managed network to a remote network management platform are disclosed. Streaming of billing usage data associated with third-party resources may use resource identifiers to associate resources with line items in a service bill generated by the third-party network. A proxy server in the managed network may intermediate streaming from the third-party network to a remote server in a computational instance of the remote network management platform. Billing data may be recorded partly in a metric-base database configured for storing time series data corresponding to usage quantities of third-party resources consumed by the managed network per unit time, and partly in a static records database configured for storing database records associated with the time series data, and including data for identifying the third-party resources and for recording static information relating to billing for the third-party resources.

Some embodiments are associated with multi-tenant software defined data center network traffic management. A data center computing system may calculate a first value for a first traffic flow, associated with a first user, using a dynamic, distributed, and substantially real-time model. The system may calculate a second value for to a second traffic flow, associated with a second user, using the dynamic, distributed, and substantially real-time model. The system may then dynamically allocate network resources to the first and second traffic flows based on the first and second priorities. Some embodiments may establish a plurality of network device queues and perform queue selection for optimization. According to some embodiments, the first user may be categorized as a premium user while the second user is categorized as an enterprise user.

A system for marking and transferring data of interest includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to mark data of interest. The processor is configured to: determine whether to generate a transfer request for the data of interest based at least in part on a viewing likelihood estimate, and in response to a determination to generate the transfer request for the data of interest, generate the transfer request for the data of interest.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for automatically selecting a network according to a tariff, a server, and a terminal. The method includes obtaining at least one available network access mode of a terminal; obtaining traffic tariff information of a user of the terminal; obtaining predicted Internet access duration and predicted Internet access traffic that are of the user of the terminal; and determining a network selection policy of the terminal according to the at least one available network access mode, the traffic tariff information of the user of the terminal, and the predicted Internet access duration and the predicted Internet access traffic that are of the user of the terminal. According to the method, the apparatus, the server, and the terminal in the embodiments of the present disclosure, Internet access costs of the user can be effectively controlled, and user experience can be improved.

Techniques are described for managing the execution of programs on multiple computing systems, such as on virtual machine nodes executing on the computing systems. A program execution service may in some situations provide the multiple computing systems and manage the program execution on behalf of multiple customers or other users, including to select appropriate computing systems to execute one or more instances of a program for a user, such as based in part on configuration information specified by the user. The described techniques may further include managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes in some situations.

Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications for those groups, such as by specifying which source nodes are allowed to transmit data to particular destinations nodes. In addition, determinations of whether initiated data transmissions from source nodes to destination nodes are authorized may be dynamically negotiated for and recorded for later use in automatically authorizing future such data transmissions without negotiation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.