Jed has just spent some time analyzing some of the applications on the cloud service provider his company uses. He found that one of the applications was using a lot of resources between the servers that it was deployed on and implemented horizontal scaling to resolve the issue. Which of the following did Jed do?
A) Migrate the application to another cloud service provider.
B) Migrate the application to an on-premises data center.
C) Increased the capacity of the existing servers.
D) Increased the number of servers available to the application.

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Horizontal scaling, which Jed implemented, involves increasing the number of servers available to the application to distribute the load more effectively, rather than increasing the capacity of existing servers (vertical scaling) or moving the application to a different environment.

Jed Has Just Spent Some Time Analyzing Some of the Applications