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> whenever your load decreases for even a minute or two, knowing you can just scale right back up.

Doesn't AWS still charge by the hour ... so if you were spinning instances up and down based on minute-to-minute load you would be overpaying for vs just maintaining a steady baseline.

If you turn an instance off you need to be pretty confident it will stay off for at least an hour.



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