From the course: Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts
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Dynamic infrastructures
From the course: Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts
Dynamic infrastructures
- [Narrator] Dynamic infrastructures is the ability to provision and deprovision infrastructure resources on demand. This allows for more efficient use of computing power that would otherwise be wasted when unused or underutilized. It also helps to lower the cost by giving users the flexibility to only pay for what they need at any given time. An example of a dynamic infrastructure is an application that utilizes autoscale in order to dynamically grow and shrink the size of your application based on the resources required to operate the application at that particular moment. Dynamic infrastructures allow additional resources to be brought online quickly to handle sudden changes in traffic levels. As traffic levels go up, more resources can be allocated. As traffic levels go down, those resources can be freed, either automatically or by a manual request. But in both cases, dynamically and on the fly. Dynamic infrastructures allow failing resources to simply be terminated and replaced…
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