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Ebby Peter
Ebby Peter

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Autoscaling Is Not a Recovery Strategy

A guide for cloud engineers, SREs, and the engineering managers who ask "why is the system still down, didn’t we autoscale?"

Autoscaling is not a recovery strategy. It’s an elasticity tool, and knowing the difference is what separates teams that survive incidents from teams that just watch their instance count go up while users experience the outage anyway.

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