Capacity Planning overview

Quarterly cross-team workflow for forecasting infrastructure resource needs and ensuring sufficient capacity is provisioned ahead of anticipated growth or peak traffic events. Platform engineers and SREs analyse historical usage trends, projected product growth, and upcoming campaigns or launches. Resource gap analyses are translated into provisioning requests or cloud scaling policies. Cost implications are reviewed with finance or engineering leadership, and approved capacity changes are scheduled. The workflow prevents both costly over-provisioning and performance degradations from under-provisioning, directly supporting uptime and cost-efficiency objectives.