Overview
When our growing cloud bill threatened to impact the bottom line, I engineered a solution that reduced costs by 30% while making our infrastructure more resilient - a win-win for engineering and finance.
The Cost Problem We Faced
- Wasted spend: Servers were consistently underutilized (often below 15% capacity)
- Expensive development environments using premium production-grade resources
- Paying for peak capacity around the clock, even during low-traffic periods
How We Solved It
Consolidated services into Kubernetes, increasing server utilization to over 80% without performance impact
Right-sized environments: Used cost-appropriate instances for development/testing, reserving premium capacity for production