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title: "How does infrastructure upsizing and downsizing work in Cloud Next?"
date: "2025-02-04T13:51:58+00:00"
summary: "Discover how Cloud Next's Kubernetes-powered infrastructure dynamically scales to meet your needs, from high-availability to peak performance."
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Cloud Next is powered by Kubernetes-managed clusters and advanced file system and database management technologies that leverage pooled resources across hundreds of containerized and virtually isolated environments. This architecture allows non-production environments to run in a high-availability configuration by default. Also, it allows production environments to leverage the full capacity of an entire regional cluster, if necessary, to respond to spikes in traffic or other forms of high resource utilization. For more information, see [dynamic auto-scaling in Cloud Next](/node/56129#dynamic-auto-scaling).