Scale Up

Definitions

1. Vertical scaling — increasing system capacity by upgrading the hardware resources (CPU, RAM, disk, network) of an existing machine or instance. Simpler than scaling out since it avoids distributed-system complexity, but limited by the maximum specs of a single machine.

   In plain English: Making one computer more powerful by giving it more memory, faster processors, or more storage.

   Example: "We just scaled up the database to an r6g.4xlarge — 128 GB of RAM bought us another six months before we need to shard."

Related Terms

• CDN
• Auto-scaling
• IaaS
• PaaS
• Object Storage
• Block Storage
• Cold Start
• Lambda Function
• Scale Out
• Virtual Machine
• Virtualization
• VM
• Bare Metal
• Hyperscaler
• Coreweave
• Cloud Security
• Cloud CDN
• Cloud Availability Region
• Compute Engine