Believe me when I say that we regularly overestimate the actual resource requirements for our applications. To be fair, it used to be the right thing to do. But when it comes to the cloud, the right way to go about resource requirements is to start small and to scale out to maintain your applications’ target performance. If scaling out isn’t working because the Virtual Machine lack RAM, CPU or local temporary storage its time to think about scaling up.
Alexandre Brisebois ☁ 