Hardly an exceptional case. A lot of web shops use auto scaling as means to save money, not to respond traffic spikes like black friday's. What is easier, havi

Hardly an exceptional case. A lot of web shops use auto scaling as means to save money, not to respond traffic spikes like black friday's. What is easier, having a bunch of powerful servers that provides you enough headroom or having to fight your auto-scaling group to have just enough capacity and in the end of the day still costing more?