[reconbot]

I found it lowered our server cost incredibly for a high volume read heavy site. It allowed us to scale in response to increased traffic (not instantly that's a lie, spikes in the thousands of requests a second are not handled well, but over a few minutes it catches up without issue) and not have to provision and spin up servers. We were constantly over provisioned before and now it's a much lower but moving margin.

[cobookman]

You can do that today though with K8s and auto-scaling. Not sure how well autoscaling works on AWS, but on GCP its a breeze.