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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. Re:Like cellphones by Yvan256 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Cloud companies will likely not make metering very easy or cheap because they *want* you to get carried away.

    And how does that differ from the cellphone companies?

  2. Re:I don't think so by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    why is this constantly posted to slashdot? someone has to be manually entering this... or has slashdot's captcha system been broken?