Thanks Joao.  That is a helpful document.  I've read that one and most of the other related doc in the Evaluation guide and developer documentation.  

As that document points out, an admin (human) has to manually select additional capacity in order to achieve scaling up or out.  I'm not under-valuing the work that the native OS platform does to 'just take care' of the rest of the devops / infrastructure details, but what if I wanted my application to be able to automatically scale based on monitoring triggers and/or programatically?  That is, dynamically without human intervention.  

I like the native management the OS platform provides so I don't want to have to use containers unless it's absolutely necessary.

See?

As far as I know, there is no auto-scaling feature yet with OutSystems Cloud services.

Nonetheless, it should be possible if you're using other Cloud services like AWS although I haven't tried that myself.

There is an interesting post discussion about dynamic scaling here.

Kind regards,
João

Thanks.  That is a helpful thread.  So, non-native OS deployment on AWS creates the option too.

I like the one-stop shop of the native OS platform, but this is a good alternative.

I'll leave the question out there so I can hear how others have addressed this need. 

Thanks.

Joao:

You've been helpful.  I'll mark this as a solution and since what I'm looking for is more of a discussion, I will mark this answered and move the discussion to that part of the Forum.

Thanks much!

Anyone interest to follow the discussion, I have created it here --> https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/67040/auto-scaling/