Problem: Consider ABC company that you are employed as member of the IT Cloud Engineering team. You are providing contracted support to a company that has had considerable success over the past 2 years. The company wants to expand globally and provide greater service to customers. The budget is limited for now, so the company cannot scale up AND scale out. They can only do one or the other.
Q1. Why would you recommend that the company to scale-up (improve the company's computers)?
Q2. Why would you recommend that the company scale-out (add or replace existing servers with more powerful ones)?