Difference between scale up and scale out In Cloud Computing
In Cloud Computing Scale Out means Increase the Number of nodes in the system and Scale up means increasing the Resources of a one node of the system (Memory, CPU).
Example
Scale out
If you Have One Web Server and If you’re deciding to add More Web Servers , This Means Scaling Out, the system also called as horizontal scaling, Opposite to this is Scale In Which Means Reduce the number of servers.
Scale Up
If you Have a Web Server and if you’re deciding to Increase the Resources, for example Physical Memory (RAM) Size of the Server, This we refer as scale Up. Opposite to this is Scale Down, Which Means Reduce the number of Resources, For Example reducing the number of CPU of a single Server. This also Called as Vertical scaling.
