Load adaptation architecture framework for orchestrating and managing services in a cloud computing system

A computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the computer system to:
• detect, in a monitored region of a cloud computing system, that connections to a service at least meet a threshold, wherein the monitored region comprises a virtual network function;
• responsive to detecting that connections to the service at least meet the threshold, determine that a scale-in or scale-out operation should be performed to adapt to load attributable to the connections to the service;
• and
• trigger the scale-in or scale-out operation to adapt to the load.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• detecting, in a monitored region of a cloud computing system, that connections to a service at least meet a threshold, wherein the monitored region comprises a virtual network function;
• responsive to detecting that connections to the service at least meet the threshold, determining that a scale-in or scale-out operation should be performed to adapt to load attributable to the connections to the service;
• and
• triggering the scale-in or scale-out operation to adapt to the load.