Patent ID: 11915026
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. One or more non-transitory computer-accessible storage media storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
obtain a task descriptor via a programmatic interface, wherein the task descriptor indicates a plurality of software containers including the first software container and a second software container;
determine, based at least in part on input received via the programmatic interface, that the first software container is to be executed at an enhanced level of isolation compared to the second software container;
select, from among a plurality of categories of virtual machines of a virtualized computing service and based at least in part on the enhanced level of isolation, a first category of virtual machines to be used to execute the first software container, wherein the first category of virtual machines includes a reduced software stack that differs from software stacks of virtual machines of one or more other categories of the plurality of categories;
cause the first software container to be executed within a first virtual machine of the first category; and
cause the second software container to be executed within a second virtual machine of a second category of the plurality of categories.