Some examples: Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource utilization in distributed storage systems https://patents.google.com/patent/US9990147B2/en?inven

Some examples: Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource utilization in distributed storage systems https://patents.google.com/patent/US9990147B2/en?inventor=James+Christopher+Sorenson%2c+III https://patents.google.com/patent/US9990147B2/en?inventor=Ja... Load rebalancing for shared resource https://patents.google.com/patent/US8539197B1/en?q=monitoring+load&assignee=Amazon+Technologies%2c+Inc&oq=Amazon+Technologies%2c+Inc+monitoring+load https://patents.google.com/patent/US8539197B1/en?q=monitorin... Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases "Since our system has a high tolerance to failures, we can leverage this for maintenance operations that cause segment unavailability. For example, heat management is straightforward. We can mark one of the segments on a hot disk or node as bad, and the quorum will be quickly repaired by migration to some other colder node in the fleet." http://news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/ds-reading/aurora-sigmod17.pdf http://news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/ds-reading/aurora-sigmod17.p...