Patent ID: 11936524
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a configurable network service implemented by one or more hardware processors and associated memory, configured to:
implement a first computer network of computing nodes, wherein the first computer network is managed by the configurable network service, wherein the computing nodes are implemented as virtual machines hosted on physical hosts of the configurable network service, and wherein communications among the computing nodes are managed by one or more communication managers implemented on the physical hosts;
identify the second computer network of additional computing nodes not managed by the configurable network service; and
extend the first computer network to include the additional computing nodes as part of the first computer network, including to:
identify a connection between the first computer network and the second computer network;
create a virtual forwarder node (VFN) in the first computer network, wherein the VFN is configured to (a) route outgoing communications from the first computer network over the connection to the second computer network, and (b) route incoming communications from the second computer network received over the connection to first computer network; and
store extended computing node information about the additional computing nodes of the second computer network, wherein the extended computing node information includes dynamically discovered addresses of one or more of the additional computing nodes in the second computer network and associates the one or more additional computing nodes with the VFN such that based on the extended computing node information, communications corresponding to the one or more additional compute nodes are forwarded via the VFN.