- Rapid elasticity: Cloud computing resources can be elastically provisioned and released. They can be scaled in the following ways:
- Manual scaling: This is where the organization's operations team anticipates future workloads in the cloud environment and adds resources manually to support the organization's mission.
- Semi-automated scaling: This type of scaling still requires forecasting to ensure that resources exist and are built to support an organization's information system. Based on system events, new services, such as virtual servers to take the application's load, will be initialized.
- Fully-automated (elastic) scaling: This type of scaling allows an organization to increase or reduce capacity without the need to perform the manual labor and configuration necessary to establish the infrastructure ahead of time.
The organization has the capability of controlling the elasticity of the system so that the system does not grow out of control, causing a great...