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

Claim 6:
7. A process, comprising:
performing, by a back-end system comprising one or more processors:
receiving, by the back-end system over a connection, a health check ping from a load balancer;
evaluating, by the back-end system, 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, transmitting a negative response to the health check ping to simulate unavailability of the back-end system when the back-end system is available.