> all the benefits that cloud proponents usually talk about, like only paying for what you actually use or scaling up and down on demand. That's a trope that I

> all the benefits that cloud proponents usually talk about, like only paying for what you actually use or scaling up and down on demand. That's a trope that I have never seen in practise. A company might have some small percentage of clusters that autoscale, but usually there's a bunch of servers that don't. Also, when AWS has control plane problems, autoscaling doesn't work, you get swamped, your health checks fail, and you lose all your servers and you're hosed. So it's better to always over-provision in the first place.