The Nomad Autoscaler has been released in beta, offering horizontal application autoscaling capabilities and now also includes cluster autoscaling with support for AWS Autoscaling Groups. The new feature allows users to automatically add or remove clients from their Nomad cluster as their load changes, with a long-awaited capability that was previously only available through manual task group count management. Cluster scaling policies can be specified in files using the HCL syntax and include multiple check blocks for more complex metric values, while also supporting external plugins such as Prometheus and native Nomad metrics. The autoscaler will run these queries and pick the most appropriate result to make scaling decisions, making it easier to manage infrastructure with more complex requirements.