Cloud Optimization | Hokstad Consulting

Zero-Trust Policy Enforcement: Common Pitfalls

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Prevent zero-trust enforcement failures in multi-cloud: unify identity, segment workloads, boost visibility and roll out policies gradually.

Usage-Based Cloud Cost Forecasting: Methods

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Practical methods to forecast usage-based cloud costs using historical data, seasonality, predictive models and multi-cloud normalisation.

Checklist for Using Spot Instances on AWS, Azure, GCP

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Checklist for running spot instances on AWS, Azure and GCP: workload suitability, interruption handling, resilience and cost optimisation.

Optimizing Reserved Instances for Mixed Workloads

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Commit to proven baseline compute, layer RIs and Savings Plans, and keep 20–40% on‑demand to balance savings and flexibility.

Metrics vs. Logs: Cost Implications in Observability

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How metrics and logs drive observability costs and practical steps to cut spend: limit cardinality, filter logs, and use tiered storage.

Federated Kubernetes: Scheduling for Hybrid Cloud

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Federated Kubernetes lets you treat multiple clusters as one, trading added complexity for cross-region resilience, compliance and burst-to-cloud capacity.

Machine Learning on AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Compare AWS SageMaker, Azure ML and GCP Vertex AI for framework support, tooling, cost and integration to pick the right cloud for ML.

Cloud Networking Pricing Models Explained

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Overview of egress, cross‑zone, CDN and private connectivity costs with practical tactics to reduce UK cloud networking spend.

5 Feature Selection Methods for Cloud Spend Models

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Compare five feature-selection methods to improve cloud cost forecasts, reduce complexity and boost accuracy.

Top 5 Metrics for Cloud Cost and DevOps Efficiency

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Measure five DevOps-focused cloud metrics—cost per deployment, unit cost, utilisation, deployment speed and MTTR—to cut cloud spend and boost delivery.

Checklist for API Gateway Performance Tuning

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Practical checklist to reduce API gateway latency and costs: connection reuse, compression, caching, tuning, monitoring and scaling.

EKS Cost Optimisation with Spot Instances

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Cut EKS compute costs using Spot Instances, Karpenter/Autoscaler, interruption handling and node strategies for resilient savings.