We’ve added two new controls for tweaking the behavior of your autoscaling: Upscale Sensitivity and Downscale Jumps:

Upscale Sensitivity

Do you see occasional blips of high queue time that only last for a moment before immediately resolving itself?

Now you can extend the sensitivity beyond the default of 10 seconds (that’s the minimum granularity of our metrics). Choosing 20 or 30 seconds will wait until queue time remains above your threshold for that duration of time before scaling up.

Downscale Jumps

This control is most useful for job queues when you want to maximize reduction in resource costs. If you’re often scaling way up to plow through a large job queue, you might want to speed up how quickly you scale back down after you’ve cleared the queue.

That’s when you might want to turn up your Downscale Jumps: