I think, you need to understand more on autoscoring concepts as listed in the following link
autoscale-best-practices
Note the following point, which covers the specific example you have in the question
All thresholds are calculated at an instance level. For example, "scale out by one instance when average CPU > 80% when instance count is 2", means scale-out when the average CPU across all instances is greater than 80%.
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