Cloud Computing Architecture Interview Question:

Can you please explain the difference between vertical scale up and Horizontal scale out?

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Vertical scale up provides more resources to a single computational unit, whereas horizontal scale out provides additional computational unit and run them in parallel.
Vertical scale up provides a provision to move a workload to other system that doesn't have workload, whereas horizontal scale out split the workload among various computational units.
Vertical scale up doesn't have a database partitioning concept, whereas horizontal scale out provides the database partitioning.
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