Some of the things hidden in the transition here that I noticed when exploring converting to a small business account:

> Any computer-to-computer backups will be permanently deleted. After migration, you can't use computer-to-computer backups.

This was a neat feature to simplify local backups and makes the "higher tier" a less compelling product.

Similar situation here. Architect's desire: exposing usage and load metrics to autoscale the services.

Reality: Everything runs on two EC2 instances, regardless of load.

I strongly encourage you to try this and let me know how it turns out.

I'll wait.