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Cost Optimization
Cutting a scaling startup's cloud bill by 60%
Right-sizing a fast-growing Kubernetes platform to reclaim runway without slowing the team down.
- 60% lower
- Cloud spend
- Roughly 2x
- Cluster utilization
- Kept daily
- Release pace
// the challenge
A funded startup was scaling fast on Kubernetes but paying for far more compute than it used. Oversized nodes, idle staging environments, and unmanaged storage were quietly eating into runway, and the team had no time to dig into it.
// our approach
- Audited real usage across clusters to separate genuine demand from waste.
- Right-sized node pools and set up autoscaling so capacity tracks load instead of peak.
- Introduced spot and reserved capacity where workloads could tolerate it.
- Added cost dashboards and alerts so spend stays visible to the team going forward.
// the outcome
The client cut monthly cloud spend by around 60% while keeping the same release pace, turning wasted infrastructure back into engineering runway.
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