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I have a quick question, with Cloud.  Is the traffic from the endpoint to the agent one way? Like does the agent just check the endpoint every 10 seconds, and then tells the endpoint that it is running the job?

Hey <@U0219KJ4XTM>, yes I believe that’s right

Slightly relevant <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/4158|issue> that was resolved

Thanks, was looking in how I would autoscale down when I have multiple agents. And I was thinking of using connection draining to let machines that were not getting used finish before shutting down (<https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/enabling-connection-draining>)

But I guess since the traffic is all one way, can just rely on retries if that happens.

Or, maybe I can also scale on the number of containers running. Will think about that. Thanks