Scaling down the cluster
Scaling up the cluster to meet the demand is essential since it allows us to host all the replicas we need to fulfill (some of) our SLAs. When the demand drops and our nodes become underutilized, we should scale down. That is not essential given that our users will not experience problems caused by having too much hardware in our cluster. Nevertheless, we shouldn't have underutilized nodes if we are to reduce expenses. Unused nodes result in wasted money. That is true in all situations, especially when running in Cloud and paying only for the resources we used. Even on-prem, where we already purchased hardware, it is essential to scale down and release resources so that they can be used by other clusters.
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