Cloud Compute Collocations
Practice the correct English collocations for cloud compute operations: launching, terminating, resizing, and scaling virtual machines and instances.
Key Collocations
- spin up an instance — It takes under a minute to spin up a new EC2 instance.
- terminate an instance — After the job finished, the script terminated all spot instances automatically.
- resize a VM — To handle more traffic we had to resize the VM to a larger instance type.
- autoscale a fleet — The auto-scaling group will autoscale the fleet based on CPU utilisation thresholds.
- provision capacity — Using reserved instances means you provision capacity in advance at a discounted rate.
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