Define vertical scaling in the context of EC2, and explain how it differs from horizontal scaling.

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Narendran Srinivasan · Accepted Answer

Vertical scaling (scaling up) means increasing an EC2 instance’s resources, like CPU, memory, or storage, by moving to a larger instance type. Horizontal scaling (scaling out) means adding more EC2 instances to distribute load, improving capacity and fault tolerance.

Define vertical scaling in the context of EC2, and explain how it differs from horizontal scaling.

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