Infrastructure Cost Optimizations
No business likes surprises. Especially not bad ones. Like, for example, an unexpected invoice from your cloud provider because your development team changed the VM type or increased the number of servers running in parallel. That’s why optimization is important, so you can work smarter and harder while keeping your expenses under control.
We often see that 30-40% of the resources in the cloud are wasted. A team can spawn a few VMs for an experiment and later abandon them while they are still running, creating 0% utilization but 100% of the cost. We can see when the infrastructure is not using available "discounts" and doesn’t always utilize hardware in the most efficient way.
Are you using on-demand AWS for your continuous integration? You’re wasting money! Use spot instances instead and make reserved instances for some of your services that you know you’ll need during the next few years.
