Understanding Elasticity, Capacity, and Service Model Maintenance

Introduction

The cloud computing model has the advantage of supporting highly flexible and dynamic resource utilization. Users of the cloud can consume as many or as few resources as they need, and they can adjust their consumption as their needs change. Cloud platforms do not automatically optimize resource allocation. The amount of resources cloud workloads require at any given time depends mainly on the user.

Capacity and storage

Capacity is defined as the workload capability, what a system can do. Now, the capacity becomes very important for the cloud because if we are dealing with our local data centers or network operation centers, we can go in there. We manage that space, plug in more server racks any time we want to, and so forth to make sure we can meet the capacity.