One of the big value propositions of the cloud was to automatically provision extra servers in response to load - either like you are doing, or by detecting lo

One of the big value propositions of the cloud was to automatically provision extra servers in response to load - either like you are doing, or by detecting load spikes and spinning up instances. Trouble is, people don't seem to do that. I see a lot of 'Boss says use the cloud, lets just provision our current network in AWS 24/7'. I kind of see serverless abd redshift as a workaround for the fact that users are currently mostly doing it wrong, and will eventually figure out that an always on cloud deployment is more expensive than just hiring server or colo.