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Commit with Confidence: How to Size RI and Savings Plans for Small Clusters

Size Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for 3–10 node Kubernetes clusters: analyze usage, cover 60–75% baseline, and layer Spot and...
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Kubernetes Scheduling for Spot: Eviction-Resilient Patterns that Save 40%+

Practical guide to running Kubernetes on spot instances with PDBs, topology spread, taints/tolerations, autoscaling and monitoring to cut compute costs.
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Hidden Costs of ‘Free’ Managed Services

'Free' cloud tiers hide costs like performance caps, egress and logging fees, and vendor lock-in, so set alerts, optimize logs,...
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When Your Bill Skyrockets: A 15-Minute Spend Spike Response Playbook

A 15-minute emergency playbook to detect, diagnose, and stop cloud cost spikes—real-time alerts, root-cause checks, immediate fixes, and preventive policies.
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Spot Instances Without the Heartburn: A Playbook for Small Teams

Small teams can cut cloud costs up to 90% with Spot Instances by using diversification, checkpointing, and automation to handle...
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How We Built a Bare-Metal TCO Model That Saved a Startup $333k in 30 Days

Moved steady AWS workloads to bare-metal using a cloud audit and 5-year TCO model to cut costs up to 80%...
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How to Align DevOps Teams with Business Goals

Align DevOps to business by mapping technical work to KPIs, creating cross-functional teams, and using metrics to link deployments to...
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Avoid Vendor Lock-In with Multi-Cloud Governance

Standardize tools and automate policy to prevent vendor lock-in, cut cloud costs, and maintain security and portability across providers.
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Why Change Failure Rate Matters for SaaS Startups

Why Change Failure Rate matters for SaaS: benchmarks, outage costs, scaling risks, and practical steps—small releases, feature flags, CI/CD, and...
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AWS announces 15% GPU pricing increase, ending two-decades-long trend

AWS raised EC2 GPU prices 15% on Jan 4, 2026, signaling a cloud pricing shift; FinOps, multi-cloud, and hybrid strategies...
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Multi-Tenant Resource Scheduling in Kubernetes

Practical guide to multi-tenant scheduling in Kubernetes: namespaces, RBAC, quotas, QoS, custom schedulers, node isolation, autoscaling, and cost tips.
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Kubernetes RBAC: Step-by-Step Setup

Clear steps to enable Kubernetes RBAC, create service accounts, define Roles/ClusterRoles, bind permissions, and validate access with kubectl.
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