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The cluster autoscaler will do pod compaction. It would be nice to specify when to favor more compaction than expansion because you know the traffic is going to fall off after a certain time during the day.

The main thing the integration helps with is reducing the startup time when there is scheduling pressure. If you know your increase in number of pods will always mean an expansion in the nodegroup, you can proactively and optimistically expand the nodegroup.