Cost Optimization: case studies over time¶

10 case studies across 6 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "cost optimization"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Adobe, Cast AI, Cortex, Spotify

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

Cost-effective Compute Clusters with Spot and Pre-emptible Instances - Bich Le & Arun Sriraman ¶

Speakers share how they ran cost-effective Kubernetes compute clusters on spot and pre-emptible instances.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023¶

Kube-Costbusters: Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters for Efficiency... Rachel Leekin & Antoinette Mills ¶

Talk on optimizing Kubernetes clusters for cost efficiency, likely sharing practitioner lessons.

Kubernetes Confessions: Tales of Overspending and Redemption - Becky Pauley & David Collom — Cast AI¶

Talk recounting real Kubernetes overspending stories and how costs were reduced.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024¶

Reducing Cross-Zone Egress at Spotify with Custom gRPC Load Balancing — Spotify¶

Spotify reduced cross-zone egress costs by implementing custom gRPC load balancing.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City¶

The Node Tetris Rabbit Hole: Why Your Binpacking Might Be Underperforming - Hannah Taub, Adobe Inc. — Adobe¶

Adobe investigates why its node binpacking underperforms and what it learned.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

From Idle to Savings: Building a Global Scheduler for Cost‑Efficient Data P... Rainie Li & Ang Zhang ¶

Speakers describe building a global scheduler that cuts idle cost for their data platforms.

Fusing FinOps, Forecasting, and Kubernetes at Scale - Ankur Singh & Satyam Bhardwaj ¶

Presents how FinOps and forecasting are combined to manage Kubernetes costs at scale; the speakers' organization is not named in the title.

How Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just Money - Juliano Costa & Yuri Oliveira ¶

Argues that manual OTel instrumentation reduces observability cost and more, based on the speakers' own experience.

Preventing S3 Cost Storms: Applying Cortex’s Efficiency Lessons to I/O-Heav... A. Fishman-Lichterman — Cortex¶

Applies Cortex's lessons on preventing S3 cost spikes to I/O-heavy workloads.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026¶

Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibi... Bhavani Indukuri & Aman Chandna ¶

Speakers explain how they made cost a platform responsibility after Kubernetes costs got out of hand.