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Not everybody uses or needs autoscaling. In fact I would venture that the vast majority of companies doing business on the internet, even those that have sunk their money into the cloud computing gold rush, do not need autoscaling.


I would argue that everyone needs auto scaling, even if it's only to use it to scale manually, or change/upgrade instances easily. Being able to just tell your auto scaling group to do +3 then -3 to replace your 3 instances without downtime is quite nice.


We host internally on our own hardware and have other much simpler ways of achieving the same thing, should we need to.




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