In this article, we will learn How to scale up and scale out on Azure. The following terms “scaling up” and “scaling out” are usually used in cloud environments. The cover image of this blog post clearly differentiates both terms as well. Please see How to deploy WordPress on Azure App Service, How to Add and Format a New Virtual Disk to an EC2 Instance, and the “3 Ways to Convert VMware VMs to Hyper-V“.
Scaling up, or vertical scaling means to increase the memory, storage, or compute power on an existing virtual machine. For example, you can add additional memory to a web or database server to make it run faster.
Also, see how to “Create an App Service Plan with Continuous Deployment to deploy a .NET Application from GitHub“, and “Virtual Machine Scale Set: Demonstrating High Availability in Azure“.
How to scale up and scale out on Azure
Scaling out, or horizontal scaling means to add extra virtual machines to power your application.
For example, you might create many virtual machines configured in exactly the same way and use a load balancer to distribute work across them.
Note: The Cloud is elastic and scaling up and down is possible.
Scale Up
To Scale up, click on the Scale up (App Service Plan)
Compare the plans
To Scale-Out
Click on the Scale-Out (App Service Plan) under settings as shown above under settings.
I could not demonstrate these steps further as this was in a learning environment on Microsoft.
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