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I wouldn't, since my personal theory is that the outage is due to AWS and GCP autoscale capacity exhaustion. We'll find out soon enough! EDIT: And down goes No

I wouldn't, since my personal theory is that the outage is due to AWS and GCP autoscale capacity exhaustion. We'll find out soon enough! EDIT: And down goes Notion, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634159

yreg 6y ago
>AWS and GCP autoscale capacity What does this mean? What do cloud providers do when customers scale down their services? Do the providers literally power down servers? Do they sell the capacity to new customers?
- delfinom 6y ago
  They rate limit how fast you can auto scale which is dependent on a slew of factors.
- rocho 6y ago
  They sell unused capacity at a much lower price (spot instances on AWS, preemptible VMs on GCP). I don't know if they power down some servers if usage stays low for a very long time.