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• Flexibility of resources.
– Can scale to demand.
– Many options for resources (amount of RAM, CPU, storage, etc.)
• No more, no less
• Why is the ability to scale important? Describe some side-effects of not being able to scale.
CA485 Ray Walshe 2015
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When does the Cloud make
sense?
• Demand for a service varies with time.
• Demand for a service is unknown in
advance.
• Batch analytics.