How to Manage Hybrid Cloud Scaling Costs
Practical steps to control hybrid cloud scaling costs: monitor spend, rightsize resources, automate scaling, use reserved and spot pricing, and reduce data transfer.
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Blog posts in the Cloud Optimization category
Cost-Aware Autoscaling for AI Workloads
Tie AI autoscaling to costs and performance: use predictive scaling, workload tiering, SLOs and budget guardrails to cut GPU spend by 30–50%.
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Checklist for Cost-Efficient Scaling in the Cloud
Audit usage, right‑size resources, automate scaling and enforce governance to cut cloud costs without reducing reliability.
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Common Workflow Monitoring Mistakes and Costly Impacts
Avoid common workflow monitoring mistakes that inflate costs and slow deployments. Prioritise key metrics, refine alerts and automate cost controls.
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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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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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5 Metrics to Measure CI/CD Performance
Five CI/CD metrics—deployment frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, MTTR and pipeline duration—to spot bottlenecks, cut costs and boost developer productivity.
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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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How to Build Multi-Cluster CI/CD for Hybrid Clouds
Practical guide to GitOps-driven multi-cluster CI/CD on hybrid clouds: topology, networking, IaC, secrets, observability and cost optimisation.
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Vulnerability Management KPIs: Case Studies and Insights
How to measure vulnerability programmes: key KPIs (MTTD, MTTR, patch latency), case studies and best practices for risk-based prioritisation and faster remediation.
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