How Spot Instances Reduce Multi-Cloud Costs
Spot instances can cut multi‑cloud compute costs by up to 90% using spare capacity, automation and a mixed capacity strategy while managing interruption risk.
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Blog posts in the Cost Management category
Istio Service Mesh: Testing Best Practices
Guide to testing a service mesh: validate configs, verify traffic routing and resilience, use observability, benchmark performance and add checks to CI/CD.
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Optimising Data Analytics with Spot Instances
Cut cloud analytics costs up to 90% by running fault‑tolerant workloads on spot instances while protecting data with external storage and mixed on‑demand strategies.
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Open Source vs Proprietary CI/CD: Cost Comparison
Compare total cost of ownership for open-source and proprietary CI/CD — licensing, infrastructure, maintenance, and when each option saves UK teams money.
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Ultimate Guide to VPNs for Hybrid Cloud Security
Secure hybrid cloud networks with VPNs: IPsec best practices, Site-to-Site and Remote Access setups, AWS/Azure integration, BGP failover, encryption and cost control.
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AI in Multi-Cloud Resource Optimisation
AI reduces multi‑cloud costs, automates rightsizing and governance, and boosts performance with predictive scaling and unified workload orchestration.
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Cloud Cost Overruns: Prevention Tactics
Practical tactics—budgets, autoscaling caps, rightsizing, tagging and governance—to cut cloud costs 15–25%.
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Service Mesh vs. API Gateway: Cost Impacts
Compare API gateway and service mesh costs across infrastructure, scaling, licensing and operations to see which is more cost‑effective for your cloud setup.
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Why Energy Efficiency Matters in CI/CD Pipelines
CI/CD pipelines waste energy and money; optimise triggers, images, caching and scheduling to cut carbon emissions and cloud costs.
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Reducing Cloud Costs with KEDA Autoscaling
Save 25–40% on Kubernetes cloud spend with KEDA: event-driven autoscaling that scales to zero, integrates with HPA and cluster autoscalers to cut idle costs.
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Spot Instances vs Preemptible VMs: Cost Breakdown
Compare AWS Spot Instances and Google Preemptible VMs: discounts, runtime limits, pricing and interruption risks to choose the best low-cost compute option.
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Multi-Tenant CI/CD Cost Allocation: Challenges and Solutions
Practical strategies and tools to accurately attribute shared CI/CD costs in multi-tenant Kubernetes setups, covering tagging, dashboards and tenancy models.
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