When fleet auto scaling policies maintain more active instances than are required to support current usage—particularly during off-peak hours—organizations incur unnecessary compute costs. Fleets often remain oversized due to conservative default configurations or lack of schedule-based scaling. Tuning the scaling policies to better reflect usage patterns ensures that streaming infrastructure aligns with actual demand.
AppStream streaming instances are billed by the hour based on instance type and the number of running instances, regardless of whether those instances are being actively used. Minimum instance counts and scheduled provisioning settings directly influence total cost.
