Patent attributes
The technology disclosed relates to failure recovery in cloud-based services. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to a service instance BA that identifies a service instance BB as having a secondary role for packets carrying a stream affinity code which is specified in a service map distributed to service instances. Service instance BA state information is synchronized with the service instance BB after processing a first packet. After failure of the service instance BA, a service instance AA receives an updated service map, and prepares to forward to the service instance BA a second packet. The second packet includes a same stream affinity code as the first packet forwarded before the failure. The updated service map is used to determine that the service instance BB is available and servicing the same stream affinity code as the service instance BA. The second packet is forwarded to the service instance BB.
