Karpenter + Spot Instances + Scale-to-Zero: How We Cut EKS Costs by 70%
We replaced Cluster Autoscaler with Karpenter, moved 80% of workloads to Spot, and implemented scale-to-zero for non-critical services. Monthly bill went from $47K to $14K.
War stories from production, deep dives into infrastructure, and things we learned the hard way.
We replaced Cluster Autoscaler with Karpenter, moved 80% of workloads to Spot, and implemented scale-to-zero for non-critical services. Monthly bill went from $47K to $14K.
We built an AI agent that reads logs, correlates traces, and suggests fixes before the on-call engineer finishes their coffee. Here's exactly how we did it.
We built a real-time cost visibility dashboard with Grafana, Prometheus, and custom exporters. Now every team sees exactly what they spend — and they started caring.
A healthcare SaaS was spending $38K/month on AWS with no idea where the money went. We audited everything, implemented 12 changes, and brought it down to $18K. Here's the full breakdown.