o</a> load generator client. We restricted the clients to a node pool of 100 32-core machines, to eliminate noise from collocated clients, and allocated the remaining 900 8-core instances to our services.</p><figure style=width:60%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:78.66379310344827%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.26/blog/2024/ambient-vs-cilium/scale-scenario.png title><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.26/blog/2024/ambient-vs-cilium/scale-scenario.png alt="Scaling to 500 s