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Autoscaling

Adding and removing capacity automatically in response to a demand signal, to track load without paying for peak all the time.

Cloud Architecture term

Target Tracking Scaling

An autoscaling policy that adds or removes capacity to hold a chosen metric near a target value, like a thermostat, rather than reacting to threshold breaches.

Autoscaling term

Warm Pool

Pre-initialised instances held in a stopped or standby state so that scaling out skips boot and application warm-up.

Autoscaling

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A service autoscales on CPU. During incidents it never scales out, even as latency triples. Why, and what would you scale on instead?

Why CPU never triggers The service is latency bound, not compute bound. Its threads are waiting — on a database, a downstream API, a lock, or a connection pool

Autoscaling

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Autoscaling

Signals, delays and bounds — and the maximum that caps a runaway bill.

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