The Hidden Cost of Kubernetes: How Over-Provisioning is Draining Your Cloud Budget
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Kubernetes over-provisioning is a common but often overlooked source of cloud cost waste. The main culprits are resource requests set conservatively and never revisited, production-sized non-production environments, forgotten infrastructure like orphaned namespaces and volumes, and autoscalers that scale around oversized requests rather than actual usage. To address this, teams should start with resource visibility to understand actual consumption patterns, right-size workloads based on real usage data rather than estimates, establish governance guardrails like admission controllers and namespace-level cost attribution, and only then optimize infrastructure pricing strategies like Savings Plans or Spot instances.
