Cloud Scalability: Choosing the Right Cloud Scaling Method

Joy Joel
8 min readSep 8, 2024

In the dynamic world of cloud computing, ensuring your systems can handle fluctuating business demands is crucial. Users can access a large pool of virtualised resources through cloud computing, which is scalable and simple to use. These resources can be provided to meet changing workload demands.

We have three types of cloud scalability: vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. Each has unique advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we will examine all three types of cloud scalability and identify how feasible they are for various applications.

Scalability in Cloud Computing: What Does It Mean?

Scalability“ may be described in several ways:

  1. It may be described as the ability of a particular system to fit and/or solve a problem as the scope of that problem increases, which can be growing volumes of work and/or being subject to enlargement.
  2. Scalability refers to a service’s capacity to manage increasing demands while maintaining key specifications for quality. Scalability guarantees that the increase of resources should be proportionate to the cost of implementation.
  3. Scalability allows adjusting infrastructure up or down based on workload. However, deciding which method to use can be…

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Joy Joel

Abba’s Daughter| DevOps Engineer|Technical Writer