> Even if Stripe is handling spikes by scaling on a hyperscaler (e.g. AWS), this scale requires advanced coordination with the hyperscaler. They can't just spin

> Even if Stripe is handling spikes by scaling on a hyperscaler (e.g. AWS), this scale requires advanced coordination with the hyperscaler. They can't just spin up tens of thousands / hundreds of thousands of VM's on a whim, the underlying abstraction would leak and fail. AWS uses predictors / models for this when you are on serverless and automatically allocates instances for you ahead of time.