US Patent 11216261 Deployment in cloud using digital replicas

Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining data indicative of a deployment request; obtaining data feeds associated with one or more resources; simulating deployment operations using one or more digital replica models and the data feeds, wherein the deployment operations are based, at least in part, on the data indicative of the deployment request; generating deployment scenarios based, at least in part, on the simulating of deployment operations; and determining an optimal deployment plan based, at least in part, on the generated deployment scenarios.