traffic spikes
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Autoscaling reacts faster than traffic patterns stabilize.
Without proper stabilization windows, brief spikes trigger aggressive scale-ups that aren’t needed long-term. Tuning scale-down behavior usually fixes this.
Takeaway: Autoscaling needs damping, not just thresholds.