: High utilization indicates your instances are overburdened and may need vertical or horizontal scaling.

: High latency in read/write operations often points to storage bottlenecks.

Cloud environments often suffer from a mismatch between allocated resources and actual demand.

: Measure the time it takes for data to travel between your server and users using tools like ping or traceroute .

The first step is establishing a performance baseline to identify precisely where the slowdown is occurring.