As organizations migrate more workloads, the pressure to keep a lid on cloud cost intensifies.
Enterprises prioritized optimization in 2023, leaning on providers to deliver better usage data and implementing FinOps practices to track and trim spending.
Kubernetes, the open source orchestration suite for lifting, shifting and then modernizing migrated applications, remains a major drain on cloud spend, according to Cast AI. Three primary culprits push spending upwards, the report said: overprovisioning, excessive headroom and underutilization of low-priced spot instances.
