{"id":11912,"date":"2021-08-10T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:52:35","slug":"stages-of-scaling-your-infrastructure-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/cloud-services\/stages-of-scaling-your-infrastructure-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Stages of Scaling Your Infrastructure in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Gartner, \u201can average organization expects to triple its allocated share of capacity to public cloud services across the next two or three years\u201d. And, with increase in capacity, there is a need for scaling the cloud infrastructure. The scalable infrastructure enables continuous growth in traffic and data size, allows consistent performance even when multiple resources are added to the cloud infrastructure <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below I have mentioned the stages of scaling your infrastructure <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Audit of the infrastructure<\/strong> <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It is important to measure the performance of the systems in cloud and the current load on the cloud. Then one needs to know how much the load can grow. It can be done by analysing the historical data and using forecasting techniques to predict the amount of workload or data growth in upcoming years. The best part of infrastructure audit in terms of load, cost, efficiency of performance and analysis of historical data and metrics is that it helps you recognise the blockers which act as impediment to scaling <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Designing the scaling architecture<\/strong> <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Once you have an understanding of the infrastructure and demand spikes or troughs (traffic patterns), your team can devise various levels of scaling <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Determining the type of Scaling<\/strong> <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Horizontal scaling- In this you need to provision additional servers to meet your demands. This helps in splitting the loads between servers and reducing the number of requests per server <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Vertical Scaling- It refers to empowering your existent server by adding more CPUs, more memory or I\/O resources. It helps replacing one server with a more powerful or higher performance server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        1. Determine the type of Scaling<\/strong> <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Scaling to cloud can be done in three ways <\/p>\n\n\n\n