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0 pointsjustsomehnguy3y ago0 comments

Counterpoint: for some years we had clients who happily lived on cheap as fuck plans but requested more at the anticipated calendar events (NY and the like).

Most of the time we just removed GHz limits, sometimes adding vCPUs in advance, they fared well.

NB: IaaS provider with a guarenteered resources

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nine_k3y ago· 1 in thread

Yes, if your elasticity requirements are not within hours but within weeks or months, adding and removing capacity can be done by traditional means, even by renting physical servers and putting them into your on-premises racks.

justsomehnguyOP3y ago

You missed the point - for some the 'elasticity' is just being able to consume 12-20GHz instead of ~1-2GHz 350 days of the year. Sure, you can deploy some advanced hyper-scaling arch to do so... or just move to a fatter instance.

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