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> Old grumpy man: but the the load is low and predictable we don't need autoscale and if load will grow we will just create two more VMs

That's perfectly ok, if your deployment costs are irrelevant and/or your company gladly pays up your infrastructure costs without a second thought.

This is not the case in some organizations, and toggling a setting to auto scale a deployment can automatically save you thousands of dollars per month.

Would you still be so casual about infrastructure costs if you had to bankroll the extra capacity you need to add to your baseline to support peaks?

The decision process involved in managing your single-box deployment is not the same that goes in managing global deployments with dozens of instances per region. Cloud providers charge a premium, and that premium is a lot.

It's like the thermostat in your office. If you're just running an AC in a single room then you can just set it to full blast to keep it day and night at a certain temperature. Once there's a decision to cut costs then you start to talk about the best time to turn off/turn on a AC unit.

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Their entire point was that their load was static, and you've immediately started talking about how it changes constantly.