Optimizing Cloud Costs - Strategies That Deliver Big Savings

Learn proven cloud cost optimization strategies from a comprehensive project that achieved over $100K in monthly savings across AWS and Kubernetes platforms in this 14-minute conference talk. Discover how to tackle key cost challenges including resource overprovisioning, stale assets, outdated architectures, and limited autoscaling through systematic optimization techniques. Explore practical approaches for reclaiming unused and underused resources using AWS Resource Manager and custom scripts, rightsizing deployments with Kubernetes metrics analysis, and modernizing infrastructure by upgrading EBS volumes and instance types. Master the implementation of dynamic autoscaling through Karpenter and Horizontal-Pod-Autoscaling, and establish robust tagging systems for enhanced accountability and monitoring. Gain actionable strategies and best practices that can be immediately applied to drive significant cost efficiency improvements within your own cloud infrastructure environments.