Patent ID: 9319272
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: provisioning, on a provider network, an instance of an appliance service comprising at least one front-end node and one or more backend nodes, wherein subsets of a plurality of resource instances on the provider network are allocated to customers of the provider network as customer resource instances, and wherein said provisioning comprises: wherein said provisioning the resource instance as the front-end node instance of the appliance service instance comprises provisioning the front-end node instance with at least two interfaces, wherein one interface of the at least two interfaces is provisioned in the customer subnet and is configured to send and receive communications from the customer subnet to the appliance service instance, and wherein another of the at least two interfaces is provisioned in the backend subnet outside the customer subnet and is configured to send and receive communications between the front-end node instance and the one or more backend node instances of the appliance service instance; and wherein at least one of the one or more backend node instances of the appliance service instance is configured to communicate with one or more other front-end node instances of another customer subnet for another customer, wherein the other customer subnet is distinct from the customer subnet for the specific customer.