Computer Science, asked by workon1010, 9 months ago

What is the difference between elasticity and scalability in cloud computing? only 5% plagiarism is allowed.

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Answered by uddeshya161

I've heard many people using both terms interchangeably. However, in my opinion there is difference between them:

SCALABILITY - ability of a system to increase the workload on its current hardware resources (scale up);

ELASTICITY - ability of a system to increase the workload on its current and additional (dynamically added on demand) hardware resources (scale out);

Elasticity is strongly related to deployed-on-cloud applications.

Have I got the difference between these two non-functional software characteristics right? May someone give specific examples, so we could draw more distinctive border between these two terms?

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