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“A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,” quote by Werner Vogels
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“A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,”

Werner Vogels

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Source Talk: AWS Re:Invent, 2018

Scalability means performance grows proportionally with added resources.

In simple terms: More resources = more performance, proportionally.

Key Takeaway

Design systems that scale linearly.

Themes

scalability performance resource management

Mood

analytical technical

Type

technical educational

When to use this quote

  • E‑commerce spikes
  • big data processing

Key Concepts

Cloud architecture distributed systems

Questions to Reflect On

  • How can you test for linear scaling?
  • What bottlenecks break proportional growth?
A Different Perspective

Real‑world workloads may not scale perfectly.

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