Same here, we went to blue/green deploys when magic in Beanstalk broke and created an outage (we used to use beanstalk deploys where it does all the switching f

Same here, we went to blue/green deploys when magic in Beanstalk broke and created an outage (we used to use beanstalk deploys where it does all the switching for you). It is very sad and unfortunate that Amazon decided to limit the smaller number of instances to 1 in VPCs. In the old classic AWS you could set the minimum number of instances to 0, which allowed you to completely shutdown an environment without destroying it, effectively allowing you to turn back to it in a few seconds.