Over of Under Provisioned

Lots of people move to the cloud; it's common. In fact, it's very common to hear customers who are being asked to migrate their workloads to a cloud vendor for a variety of reasons. You might not agree, but often there is some reason to move to the cloud. Sometimes it's even moving from one cloud to another, just because one of the big three (AWS, Azure, GCP) seems more attractive this year than the one from last year. When you move, do you size your system for the peak? 80% of the peak? Perhaps there is another goal for which you design. Do you worry about ever being under-provisioned and letting customers have a slower system? Or do you ensure you never hit the peak, which increases costs? Read the rest of Over or Under Provisioned

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Over of Under Provisioned is an episode from voiceofthedba's podcast by Steve Jones.

This episode is 03:28 long.

This episode was published on Jun 2, 2026.

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