04-04 High Elasticity

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

Your ability to automatically increase or decrease your capacity based on the current demand of traffic, memory and computing power

1. Scaling Out - Add more servers of the same size
2. Scaling In - Removing underutilized servers of the same size

Note

Vertical Scaling is generally hard for traditional architecture so you’ll usually only see horizontal scaling described with Elasticity.

#aws-service

An AWS feature that will automatically add or remove servers based on scaling rules you define based on metrics.