cloud cost optimization
Browse our cloud cost optimization articles and insights.
DevZero Doesn't Tax Your Savings
DevZero charges on your optimized infrastructure, not a counterfactual baseline — so the more aggressively you cut cloud waste, the less you pay us.
Kubernetes Resource Requests and Limits: Best Practices
A practical guide to setting Kubernetes CPU and memory requests and limits, avoiding OOMKills, and fixing the overprovisioning that quietly inflates your cloud bill.
Buy vs. Build: Kubernetes Cost Monitoring for Startups
Should your startup build Kubernetes cost monitoring or buy it? A real-numbers breakdown of engineering hours, tool pricing, and what actually works.
Cloud Commitments: When Savings Plans Actually Work
Why do savings plans exist? And more importantly, when do they actually make sense? Let's break down the economics.
Your Cloud Bill Is On Fire: Why Savings Plans Fail
Savings plans reduce your cloud bill but don't fix the underlying waste. Learn why commitment pricing is cost mitigation, not optimization, and what to do instead.
What Makes DevZero Different
How DevZero differs: predictive Kubernetes rightsizing, zero-downtime live migration, and Karpenter-based cluster autoscaling — no cold starts, no wasted spend.
Container Checkpoint/Restore with CRIU
Eliminate container downtime with CRIU checkpoint/restore. Complete guide to live migration and seamless container state preservation.
AWS vs Azure vs GCP: Pricing Comparison to Help You Choose
In this guide, we break down cloud pricing across AWS, Azure, and GCP to help you make an informed decision.
AKS Cost Optimization: Reduce Azure K8s Costs
A practical guide to reducing AKS costs. Learn what drives your Azure Kubernetes bill, how to right-size workloads, use Spot VMs, and automate cost controls.
AKS Pricing: VM Costs, Pools, and Billing Guide
Learn how Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) pricing works—from VM node pools to Spot VMs and Virtual Nodes.
Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler: Scale Nodes When Pods Don’t Fit
A practical guide to Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler. Learn how it manages node scaling, where it falls short, and how to make it more cost-efficient in production.
Kubernetes HPA: Scale Pods Based on Resource Usage
Learn how HPA scales pods in Kubernetes, how to configure it, when it works well, and where it runs into limits in production.