--- title: Horizontal Scaling objective: layout: framework_docs order: 50 toc: false --- Horizontally scale your Postgres cluster with the [`flyctl machine clone`](https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/machine-clone/) command. Here's an example: ```cmd fly machine clone e784079b449483 --region ord --app pg-test ``` You can use [`fly machine status`](/docs/flyctl/machine-status/) to confirm the state of the cluster.