Elasticity and Scalability - Teradata Software for AWS

Teradata Vantage™ on AWS (DIY) Installation and Administration Guide

Product
Teradata Vantage on AWS
Release Number
5.08
Published
November 2018
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-11-07
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Product Category
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The following table describes which elasticity feature to use for each action.

For more information, see the Orange Book, Elasticity in the Teradata® Database, TDN-0009703. To find an Orange Book, go to https://access.teradata.com, log in, and search for the book title.

Action Scale Up1 Scale Down1 Scale Out2 Scale In2 Expand Storage3
Decrease CPU count      
Decrease memory size      
Decrease storage bandwidth of instances      
Increase CPU count      
Increase memory size      
Increase storage bandwidth of instances      
Increase instance count        
Increase storage capacity of the EBS volumes        
Replace instances with more powerful instances        
  • 1Maintains the AMP count but changes the instance type.
  • 2Maintains the AMP count but changes the number of instances.
  • 3Maintains the AMP count but increases the size of each EBS volume.