SREcon24 Americas - Capacity Constraints Unveiled: Navigating Cloud Scaling Realities Kevin Sonney and Marc-Andre Dufresne, Elastic Do you believe cloud capacity is limitless? Have you ever run into an out of capacity error from your cloud service provider? How do you satisfy the capacity demands of your application? You cannot imagine a world where you can’t scale up your auto-scaling group anymore? Have you felt desperate and powerless when it happens? You are not alone. We believe that capacity planning should become a more prominent skill set of SREs. This talk explores what challenges we have faced growing capacity for Elastic Cloud, how we overcame those issues, and what we will not repeat in future products. View the full SREcon24 Americas program at https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/program