> Like someone else said, distributing work across multiple machines is a form of horizontal scaling. Sure, but it is the easy kind, when it comes to images or

> Like someone else said, distributing work across multiple machines is a form of horizontal scaling. Sure, but it is the easy kind, when it comes to images or videos. Lambda, for example, can handle a huge amount of image processing for pennies per month and there is none of the additional machine baggage that comes with traditional horizontal scaling.