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Cloud Optimization

Blog posts in the Cloud Optimization category

AI in DevOps: Predictive Scaling Use Cases

Use forecast-led predictive scaling with reactive fallback to reduce latency and cloud spend for repeatable workloads.

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Observability in Multi-Cloud Service Mesh

Standardise telemetry, run per-cluster collectors and centralise only essential aggregates to unify metrics, logs and traces across clouds.

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Provisioned Concurrency For Cold Start Reduction

Cut serverless tail latency by pre-warming; size provisioned concurrency for p95/p99, test lighter runtimes and schedule to save cost.

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Ultimate Guide to AI Cloud Cost Auditing

Inventory AI cloud spend, assign ownership, detect anomalies, cut GPU and token waste, and set governance to lock in savings.

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FinOps Automation for Hybrid Cloud Cost Optimisation

Unify GBP cloud and on‑prem spend, assign ownership, then automate rightsizing, scheduling and policy checks to cut hybrid cloud costs.

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Multi-Cluster Workflow Scheduling: Cost Impacts

How multi-cluster CI/CD affects costs: save with rightsizing, spot nodes and data-local placement, and measure in £ per workflow.

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How Multi-Cluster Scheduling Reduces Cloud Costs

Lower cloud bills by treating clusters as one pool: better placement, rightsizing, autoscaling and policy controls.

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Multi-Cloud Cost Management: Problems and Solutions

Centralise billing, enforce same tags and owners, and match commitments to workloads to cut multi‑cloud waste and data egress costs.

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Right-Sizing Managed Search Services

Cut search costs and improve reliability: keep shard sizes 10–50 GB, match replicas to failure needs, tier old data and review sizing regularly.

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5 Network Segmentation Strategies for Private Clouds

Layered private‑cloud segmentation — VLAN/VRF, microsegmentation, security groups, SDN and compliance — to limit lateral movement and reduce audit scope.

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Hybrid Cloud Workload Placement: Cost vs Performance

Score workloads by cost, latency, data locality and compliance to place them on‑prem, private, public or edge, and review placement regularly.

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SLOs and SLIs for Cloud-Native Applications

Use user-focused SLIs, set SLO targets and manage error budgets to guide releases, scaling and cloud spend.

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