Autoscaling is overused anyway. It's cheaper and much less complex to have 200-300% of average capacity running 24/7 on dedicated servers (OVH/Hetzner, whatever

Autoscaling is overused anyway. It's cheaper and much less complex to have 200-300% of average capacity running 24/7 on dedicated servers (OVH/Hetzner, whatever) than trying to scale up and down according to demand. Changing capacity automatically always has the potential to backfire. And as AWS & Co need to keep those servers running during times of less demand there's no way it's cheaper unless you have really unusual traffic patterns (even then it's probably not).