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>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

by 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.