Troubleshooting Cloud Capacity Issues

In this section on troubleshooting, you will learn about the limitations of the various cloud services, how to identify them, and what options are available to troubleshoot and resolve these types of issues.

Any system, whether it be hardware or software, will have a limit to its ability to handle a workload. This is its capacity, which can be defined as the maximum amount that something can contain, or in the case of cloud resources, the maximum limit of any object or service that is supported.

Cloud capacity planning was covered in the previous chapter and is the process of monitoring your operations and adding resources prior to them becoming exhausted. If you do not plan and add resources in a proactive manner, then you will, at some point, run into resource starvation and performance issues. You will learn about the more common problems you may find and how to troubleshoot them.

Capacity Boundaries in the Cloud

Every device or service will have...