Patent ID: 11888745
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing program instructions that are executed on or across one or more processors to implement a back-end system configured to perform:
evaluating, by the back-end system and based on receipt of a health check ping over a connection from a load balancer, a system resource capacity of the back-end system;
determining, by the back-end system and based on said evaluating, whether to simulate unavailability of the back-end system, wherein simulate unavailability comprises transmitting a negative response to a health check ping when the back-end system is available; and
for a determination to simulate unavailability, indicating, to the load balancer, a negative response to the health check ping to simulate unavailability of the back-end system when the back-end system is available.