Ok -I mixed up some GCP terms with AWS ones then: At least in GCP you can 'reserve' stuff that you want to use and pay for the ones you actually use. I am assum

Ok -I mixed up some GCP terms with AWS ones then: At least in GCP you can 'reserve' stuff that you want to use and pay for the ones you actually use. I am assuming they cap the reserve - I am yet to run into a situation where the reserved cores were unavailable. I remember doing capacity planning like that for dynamo - but elastic search might be different.