Throughput

intermediate
networking
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Definition

The amount of data that can be processed or transmitted in a given time period. Like the number of cars that can pass through a tunnel per hour.

Real-World Example

A database with high throughput can process thousands of transactions per second during peak shopping periods.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

These services provide monitoring capabilities that can help track throughput metrics by analyzing data flow and performance across cloud resources.

AWS
Amazon CloudWatch
AZ
Azure Monitor
GCP
Google Cloud Monitoring
OCI
OCI Monitoring

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