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On Why I Don't Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud - O'Reilly Broadcast
broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/why-i-dont-like-cloud-auto-scaling.html, posted 2009 by peter in cloudcomputing development hosting networking opinion
Guess what? Almost all capacity changes are foreseeable. If you had done proper capacity planning, you would have had two key advantages:
* You would have added the capacity before it was needed, guaranteeing that the proper capacity is always in place.
* You would have discovered any operational issues with Amazon S3 before they impacted your operations (and thus allow you to take alternative steps to deal with the situation).