Hi @ryosk25
From a similar post at StackOverflow (Answered by Rohit Tatiya)
Yes, any scale up/down cause down time as it changes underline hardware and perform deployment on new hardware (compute).
How long it cause downtime ? It completely depends on application hosted on that plan and how much time application start up takes and dependencies during start up. So its completely depends on the application hosted on that plan.
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