Cloud costs spiral fast when Kubernetes clusters are left unoptimised. Weve helped clients cut their K8s spend by 30?60% without any impact on performance.
Heres the playbook:
**Right-size your nodes and pods**
Most teams overprovision by default. Use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) recommendations to set accurate resource requests and limits. We typically find 40?60% of pods are overprovisioned.
**Use Spot/Preemptible instances for non-critical workloads**
Batch jobs, dev environments, and s