2 ms·

There are guard rails in quotas. Like you can only spin up X servers without opening a ticket to ask for more. Now, think some of these quotas can still lead t

• dathinab 6y ago
  They are broken, unreliable, hard to correctly setup guard rails. I mean like the article mentioned they could have set the instances and concurrency settings to lower values. Which in this case would have worked. But finding the right settings to balance intentional auto-scaling and limiting auto-scaling to limit of how fast unexpected cost might rise is hard and prone to get wrong. Let's be honest it's in the end a very flawed workaround which maybe might help (if you know about it, and did it right).