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4. Performance Efficiency: Meet the Demand Spikes

Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan1  
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Scaling up or down on demand to meet changing performance requirements is one of the major drivers of cloud adoption. This is in stark contrast to the on-premises approach where the planning has to be done up front to meet peak performance demands. As we discussed in Chapter 2, over-provisioning is an anti-pattern that should be avoided in the cloud to optimize the costs. How do you strike a balance between the performance demands and cost ...

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