# Over-Provisioning

> The degree to which allocated capacity exceeds demand, trading waste for safety margin.

Record: `lexicon:over-provisioning`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-over-provisioning

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Model Assumptions](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/model-assumptions.md) and before [Read-Your-Writes Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/read-your-writes-consistency.md).

## Category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## In tension with

- [Resource Utilization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/resource-utilization.md)
- [Resource Utilization / Over-Provisioning](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/over-provisioning-resource-utilization.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)