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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1140 days ago
The point of cloud scaling is that it’s dynamic. I don’t have to worry about an upfront cost for server hardware because I just rent as needed. If traffic drops, I decommission instances and vice versa.

After a certain point, my traffic is always high enough that I can justify the upfront server cost. That’s “sufficient scale” as mentioned in the post.