# Elasticsearch Autoscaling

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454 "2021-04-07T11:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mkian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mkian/32/86705_2.png) [@Mkian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mkian)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454/1 "2021-04-07T11:53:51Z")

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With the introduction of Autoscaling on Elastic cloud, does anyone know if Scale In is also in place? Or it's just adding more nodes?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454/2 "2021-04-07T22:06:50Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

> [@Mkian](#):
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> does anyone know if Scale In is also in place

Can you clarify this part please, I am not sure what you mean.

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**Author:** ![Mkian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mkian/32/86705_2.png) [@Mkian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mkian)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454/3 "2021-04-08T10:56:20Z")

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Thanks Mark!  
I mean according to [document](https://www.elastic.co/blog/autoscale-your-elastic-cloud-data-and-machine-learning-nodes):

> As you add data to your hot, warm, and cold data tiers, autoscaling will create additional nodes in these tiers if needed, and then grow storage capacity to meet these needs

Question is:  
If some cleanups are done (let's say according to ILM policy), Will it remove extra nodes to save in costs?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454/4 "2021-04-08T14:39:42Z")

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At this time in Elastic Cloud autoscaling down (reducing nodes) is not supported.

You can do that manually.

Autoscaling down is planned / on the future roadmap, however we do not provide futures release dates.

Stay tuned.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-autoscaling/269454/5 "2021-05-06T14:40:34Z")

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