That makes sense, it just seems wasteful on aws's end to have thousands of machines running "for free" waiting on requests that may or may not come. Provisionin

That makes sense, it just seems wasteful on aws's end to have thousands of machines running "for free" waiting on requests that may or may not come. Provisioning more capacity also can't be instant. For a large scale enterprise system it seems like it could be unpredictable.