Cloud Optimization | Hokstad Consulting

AWS Auto Scaling: Best Practices for Performance

August 24, 2026 Cloud Optimization DevOps Management Performance

Set proper min/max capacity, use baked AMIs, choose workload metrics, enable 1‑minute monitoring and tune warmup for steady Auto Scaling.

August 24, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management DevOps Management

Align access with cost ownership, protect tags and budgets, enforce separation of duties and run regular audits to reduce cloud waste.

August 22, 2026 Cloud Optimization Compliance Management Resource Allocation

AI-driven schedulers can cut hybrid cloud cost, latency and energy; pilot them with guardrails to manage drift, overhead and compliance risk.

August 22, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Resource Allocation

Tune serverless memory and timeouts from production metrics; test 2-3 tiers to minimise cost per invocation while meeting p95/p99 latency.

August 21, 2026 Disaster Recovery Cloud Optimization DevOps Management

If one fault can stop traffic, it's a design issue—align hybrid cloud topology to RTO/RPO with dual paths, auto failover and matched security.

August 20, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Resource Allocation

Stop hiding cloud egress—separate, normalise and report transfer routes and £ to expose avoidable network spend.

August 19, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Disaster Recovery

Explains cross-region transfer, destination storage and service fees across S3, RDS, Aurora and EBS, with practical cost-saving steps.

August 19, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Resource Allocation

Compare top cloud cost reporting tools for AWS, Azure and GCP — focus on allocation, multi‑cloud, Kubernetes and finance exports.

August 18, 2026 DevOps Management Cloud Optimization Cost Management

Don't buy the list price — compare CI/CD pricing models and factor hidden costs: compute, storage and engineer time.

August 17, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Resource Allocation

Forecasts only matter if they change money decisions — tie one clean forecast to an owner and push it into budgets, alerts and reviews.

August 15, 2026 Cloud Optimization Cost Management Performance

Small latency gaps hide bigger trade-offs; region choice, storage tier and autoscaling usually decide which cloud is best for UK apps.

August 14, 2026 DevOps Management Cloud Optimization Resource Allocation

Practical guide to safe Kubernetes rolling deployments: set probes, handle SIGTERM, tune maxSurge/maxUnavailable, monitor and rollback.