Cost Optimization 💸

Right-size resources, pick suitable storage tiers, and enable autoscaling to control spend.

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Right-sizing 📏

• Use Monitoring to find sustained CPU >80% or <20% and adjust sizes

• Prefer scale-out behind a load balancer for spiky web traffic

• Deallocate unused public IPs and delete stale snapshots/volumes

Storage tiers 💾

Tier	Baseline IOPS/GB	Typical use
Standard	10	General workloads
Premium	20	Databases
Pro	30	Latency-sensitive apps

Autoscaling ⚙️

• K8s HPA/VPA for pods; node pool autoscaling (if enabled)

• Cron-based scale-down for dev/test

Quick wins ✅

• Labels for chargeback (owner, env, cost-center)

• Reserve capacity via subscriptions where steady load exists

• Snapshot before upgrades; prune old copies