Economy Scaling Policy is characterized by which behavior?

• A. Starting new warehouses to reduce load
• B. Conserving credits by keeping running warehouses fully-loaded rather than starting additional warehouses
• C. Conserving credits by reducing active warehouses
• D. Automatically reducing warehouse size when idle

Answer: (C)

Economy scaling focuses on saving compute credits by reducing resources when they aren’t needed. In a multi-cluster warehouse setup, this means turning off or suspending extra clusters to cut costs as workload dips, rather than provisioning more capacity to handle bursts. The goal is cost efficiency, so fewer active warehouses during lighter workloads translates to fewer credits spent. This also means that when demand rises again, additional clusters can be brought online, but the emphasis remains on conserving credits. It isn’t about spinning up new warehouses to share the load, nor about keeping all warehouses fully loaded, and it isn’t simply about shrinking a warehouse’s size when idle—that describes a different scaling behavior.