Scalability vs. Elasticity — Handling Changing Demand

What happens when Bob's online shop gets busier—and when the sale ends? Follow one virtual machine becoming three, then returning to one, to understand scalability and elasticity. In this beginner Cloud Foundations lesson, you'll learn: • Scalability: an application's ability to handle more work with more computing resources. • Elasticity: adjusting resources as demand rises and falls. • Why application design, readiness, configuration, startup time, and limits matter. This is an animated conceptual lesson, not a live AWS Console demonstration or a production architecture recommendation. 0:00 Scalability and capacity 0:17 Bob's shop meets rising demand 0:32 Adding capacity 0:52 What elasticity means 1:05 Setting automatic scaling rules 1:17 More demand, more machines 1:28 Lower demand, fewer machines 1:49 Configuration, startup time and limits 2:07 Check your understanding 2:31 Recap 2:45 Next: how cloud costs work Previous lesson — Cloud vs. On-Premises:    • Cloud vs. On-Premises: Benefits, Trade-off...   Watch the Cloud Security course in order:    • Cloud Security   Continue learning with StepUP Tech Academy: https://www.stepuptechacademy.co Created with animation and AI-generated narration. No burned-in narration captions; use YouTube's caption controls when captions are available.