[mfreed]

And to follow up: Today your IOPS will automatically scale with storage, and you can set storage to autoscale with your usage. Under the covers, we continually look for ways we can optimize that for our users, without them having to think of this.

So for most users, they can "set it and forget it" (easy, scalable): Launch a default cloud database, which starts out small, autoscaling on by default. As they start inserting data, the system automatically detects when it starts to approach current capacity and automatically increases (without any downtime) to more capacity & IOPS.

But for the power user, they have greater control. What that means is that you can manually resize, and as mentioned above, we'll likely also give you independent control over IOPS (independent of capacity). That's the flexibility and control we think developers also want...or at least know is there is they need it.

(Timescaler & post author)