Downsides to using cloud autoscaling systems
If you’ve explored the advantages of your cloud computing platforms, you’ve likely come across the autoscaling features. Although these differ for each provider, the idea is that they will detect if you need more memory, CPUs, or storage and automatically allocate it for you ahead of need. This allows your applications to perform at a specific level, no matter if workloads increase or decrease.
Usually, there are a couple of options, including driving scaling by the application, which is not fully automated since you have to define and invoke from the application. Or you can turn on a system that allocates different resources through entirely automated mechanisms.