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Delay between scale down events in AWS autoscaler

The terraform-aws-ec2-autoscaler should have a minimum (configurable) delay between scale out and scale in for an individual worker.

Workaround
Set `var.autoscaling_configuration.schedule_expression` can create a delay, but this will effect out as well as in for the autoscaler as a whole.
Problem
Say you scale to 0 Work is then assigned and we scale out to 1 That job completes and the autoscaler starts to scale in back to 0 almost immediately. While its scaling in, another job kicks off. I now have to wait for the autoscaler to scale out again. If there was a delay (an instance isnt scaled back in for at least 15 minutes or something) it would avoid this issue.

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Status

✅ Completed

Board

💡 Feature Requests

Date

9 months ago

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