INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC SCALING BASED ON INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INDICATORS

Techniques are disclosed for allocating computing resources in a computing network of a cloud computing system, the computing resources comprising a plurality of computing devices hosting virtual machines. An expected usage profile is determined based on first data indicative of a current demand for computing resource usage in the computing network, second data indicative of an adjacent demand for computing resource usage in the computing network, third data indicative of a historical demand for computing resource usage in the computing network, and fourth data indicative of events that are external to the computing network.