Upscaling Amazon EC2 Instance Performance: A Comprehensive Guide to Vertical Scaling for Improved Application Availability
Justin Corral2025-05-08T14:26:47+00:00It’s a scenario that no website owner wants to face: your website, which has been running smoothly for months, suddenly goes down. Panic sets in as users can’t access your services, and business slows down drastically. In my case, the traffic to my website spiked unexpectedly, and my EC2 instance could no longer handle the load. I realized that the only solution to get my site back up and running was to scale my EC2 instance vertically – but what does that even mean, and how do you do it? In this article, I will share how I tackled the [...]