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Cloud auto-scaling has made quite a few things in the public sector cheaper to operate. There are the obvious use cases like tax-returns or student-registration
by moksly 7y ago
Cloud auto-scaling has made quite a few things in the public sector cheaper to operate. There are the obvious use cases like tax-returns or student-registration, which are annual loads where you could technically scale without the auto part. As more and more things become web-based applications, however, auto-scaling proves it’s worth on things like student/teacher/parent work tools that see a high load during the hours from 08:00-15:00 and again from 18:00-21:00 and almost no loads outside of those times as well as during holidays or weekends.
- arethuza 7y agoI've worked places that had racks of servers that were only really used for a few hours a month to support massive financial consolidation runs - that would have been a great workload for a cloud service.
- FpUser 7y agoCan't argue about this particular use case. For this cloud is good. You can rent super-duper hardware for few hours and be done with it.