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autoscaling

Auto-scaling, also spelled autoscaling, is a cloud computing service feature that automatically adds or removes compute resources depending upon actual usage. Auto-scaling is sometimes referred to as automatic elasticity.

Related glossary terms: mobile cloud, CloudSwitch, WebOps (Web operations), Kapow, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) , vendor lock-in, virtual private cloud, data portability, native cloud application (NCA), Salesforce AppExchange

This was last updated in July 2012

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