Patent 9313604 was granted and assigned to Amazon on April, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed are various embodiments for throttling requests for a network service. A request for a network service is received from a client application and parameters are extracted from the request. Throttling policies applicable to the parameters are identified and retrieved, and it is determined whether the request should be processed based at least upon the throttling policies and the request parameters.