Inventors:
Marshall Scot Bjerke - Bellevue WA, US
Robert Tobkes - Seattle WA, US
Bryan David Cooke - Bellevue WA, US
Andrew Robert Miller - Issaquah WA, US
Jonathan Wayne Phillips - Seattle WA, US
Alexander M. Tkatch - Sammamish WA, US
David R. Shutt - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 15/173
Abstract:
A tenant comprising one or more users receives services from a cloud computing system (“CCS”). The CCS determines when a tenant is not using any services, and if so, the CCS initiates a tenant suspension process. The tenant suspension process involves suspending various asynchronous computing processes for the tenant, which execute otherwise execute even if no users of the tenant are currently accessing the CCS. After a period of non-use of the CCS, the tenant is suspended. The tenant is returned to an active state automatically when a user of the tenant logs-on to receive services.