From the course: Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
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Scale a web app - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
Scale a web app
- [Instructor] So way back in lesson one, I pointed out that one of the benefits of the cloud is called scaling. Now we're going to look at a real world example of scaling so you can get a better grasp of how scaling benefits you in the cloud. But before we do that, we should talk about the two types of scaling, vertical scaling, and horizontal scaling. And we'll talk about these types in the context of a virtual machine and then I'll tie that into app service here in just a few minutes. So here on the left, you see an example of vertical scaling. And when you scale vertically, you're increasing or decreasing the power of a virtual machine. When you scale up, you move to a VM with more power. That could mean a more powerful CPU, could mean more memory, could mean more disk space, or a more powerful graphics card. When we resized our VM earlier, we were vertically scaling that VM. Now on the right side is an…
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