Patent ID: 8868766

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for provisioning computing resources, comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems of a multi-tenant resource provider, configured with executable instructions, associating a color designation with at least one collection of computing resources that is hosted by the resource provider and operated under the direction of a customer of the resource provider; receiving, in connection with a request to provision one or more computing resources, information that specifies one or more relationships with the collection of computing resources, the one or more relationships being specified with the color designation and thereby being based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the at least one collection of computing resources associated with the color designation, the information that specifies the one or more relationships including information designating a color corresponding to at least one or more computing resources of a different customer of the resource provider; determining a set of available resources that have the specified one or more relationships with the collection of computing resources; and using the determined set of available resources to fulfill the request.