July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
As you just saw, when deploying in the cloud, you only pay for the resources you provision. Most cloud companies use this to their advantage to scale their infrastructure up or down as the traffic to their sites changes.
This ability to add or remove new servers and services in no time and on demand is one of the main differentiators of an effective cloud infrastructure. In the example that follows, we can see the amount of traffic hitting Amazon.com during the month of November. Thanks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the traffic triples at the end of the month:

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