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Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea

Posted by kdawson on from the nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition dept.

George Reese writes "It seems a lot of people are mistaking the very valuable benefit that cloud computing enables — dynamically scaling your infrastructure — with the potentially dangerous ability to scale your infrastructure automatically in real-time based on actual demand. An O'Reilly blog entry discusses why auto-scaling is not as cool a feature as you might think."

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  1. Like cellphones by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without a hard-limit, some people run up big cell-phone bills. If you are forced to stop and plan and budget when you exceed resources, then you have better control over them. Cloud companies will likely not make metering very easy or cheap because they *want* you to get carried away.

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