Patent ID: 11943093
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A computer-implemented method implemented by one or more host computing devices, the computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying a stateful network connection between a virtual machine instance hosted by the one or more host computing devices and an external device external to the virtual machine instance;
independent of communications of the external device and virtual machine instance, transmitting to the external device a first termination signal indicating termination of the stateful network connection;
temporarily halting execution of the virtual machine instance; and
in response to resuming execution of the virtual machine instance on a host computing device, and independent of communications of the external device and virtual machine instance, transmitting, to the virtual machine instance executing on the host computing device, a second termination signal indicating termination of the stateful network connection;
wherein the virtual machine instance is configured, on receiving the second termination signal, to attempt to reestablish the stateful network connection.