For two reasons:
- To mirror production setup (services on sc* cluster)
- To reduce the resource usage of individual services in Beta Cluster (and thus WMF Labs). See: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016#In_use_deployment-prep
Checklist for removal: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Deployment-prep/Decommission_an_instance