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scaling down is limited to 4x a day

It’s up to 27 times a day, if you time it well: “4 decreases in the first hour, and 1 decrease for each of the subsequent 1-hour windows in a day”.

gotcha, it's been awhile since I was looking at that

They upped it when they're own autoscaler needed the ability to back it down more :-/