[jhoelzel]

Of course a complete analysis needs something like kubecost running for a couple of weeks to determine where your peaks really are and a couple more for actual fine tuning, but i think its well worth it in the end.

Node autoscaling works best for me with buffer nodes depending on resources and having "one more than you need" is super easy in the cloud.

Dont get me wrong there is still plenty of room for improvenment, but the hard part is defenitly just finding out how much resources your app really needs.

And of course, the application needs to be able to handle scaling to begin with.