US Patent 10324701 Rapid deployment of computing instances

Technology for rapid deployment of computing instances from images is provided. In one example, a method may include instantiating a base computing instance and building an application layer on the base computing instance to create a modified computing instance. A machine image of the modified computing instance may be saved. The modified computing instance may be instantiated based on the machine image and a customer-defined configuration may be applied to the modified computing instance to obtain a configured computing instance.