Scaling out adds clusters of the same size to a virtual warehouse to handle more concurrent queries.

Scaling out adds clusters of varying sizes to a virtual warehouse.

Scaling out adds additional database servers to an existing running cluster to handle more concurrent queries.

Snowflake recommends using both scaling up and scaling out to handle more concurrent queries.

Scaling up resizes a virtual warehouse so it can handle more complex workloads.

Scaling up adds additional database servers to an existing running cluster to handle larger workloads.