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0 pointsmaxxxxx8y ago0 comments

I have never dealt with cloud services autoscaling. Does it really work seamlessly or will it take time to scale up? Let's say I have a system that has 10 users/day and suddenly I have 10 million for some reason. Does AWS handle this (as long as my credit card can handle it) or will there be outages while AWS is scaling up?

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kristianc8y ago

Not easy to architect right but the savings in license from not having to run at peak capacity all year often justify it.

billhendricksjr8y ago

I’m not an engineer, but the best ones I’ve worked with have stated that autoscaling ain’t easy to architect right.

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