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Jack Park on 07 Dec 08Auto-scaling is the ability (with certain cloud infrastructure management tools like enStratus-in a limited beta through the end of the year) to add and remove capacity into a cloud infrastructure based on actual usage. No human intervention is necessary. It sounds amazing-no more overloaded web sites. Just stick your site into the cloud and come what may! You just pay for what you use. But I don't like auto-scaling.