# Does autoscaling scale down as well when traffic slows down?

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/does-autoscaling-scale-down-as-well-when-traffic-slows-down/1495>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 18, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/does-autoscaling-scale-down-as-well-when-traffic-slows-down/1495 "2021-05-18T17:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![carter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/carter/32/553_2.png) [@carter](https://community.fly.io/u/carter)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/does-autoscaling-scale-down-as-well-when-traffic-slows-down/1495/1 "2021-05-18T17:08:08Z")

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I couldn’t find any details on this in the docs or in the forum. It talks about how it scales up to meet demand, but what happens when traffic lowers again?

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**Author:** ![michael](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/michael/32/16_2.png) [@michael](https://community.fly.io/u/michael)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/does-autoscaling-scale-down-as-well-when-traffic-slows-down/1495/2 "2021-05-18T17:41:54Z")

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It’ll scale back down to meet the reduced load after several minutes or the minimum, whichever is greater.