58d: Pros and Cons of Vertical Scaling (Scaling Up)

Increasing the size of the instances and, for example, increasing the server’s memory to handle load changes.

Advantages

  • Doesn’t need I/O operations. Processing is within a machine.
  • Data Consistency.
  • Easy implementation.
  • Fast development.

Disadvantages

  • Hardware limitations (cannot scale infinitely).
  • Single point of failure.

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