04. Why do we need elasticity in the cloud?

CloudEng Course1 Lesson5 WhyWeNeedElasticity V1

Elasticity in the Cloud

One of the main benefits of the cloud is that it allows you to stop guessing about capacity when you need to run your applications. Sometimes you buy too much or you don't buy enough to support the running of your applications.

With elasticity, your servers, databases, and application resources can automatically scale up or scale down based on load.

QUIZ QUESTION::

Match the concept to the definition.

ANSWER CHOICES:



Concept

Definition

Vertical scaling by resizing an instance to add more capacity

Horizontal scaling by increasing the number of servers in the farm

SOLUTION:

Concept

Definition

Vertical scaling by resizing an instance to add more capacity

Horizontal scaling by increasing the number of servers in the farm