AKS clusters average just 8% CPU utilization, 20% memory utilization, and 2% GPU utilization, the lowest of any major cloud provider, according to Cast AI's 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Repor…
Average CPU utilization across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters has fallen to 8% in 2026 from 10% in 2025, with 69% of provisioned CPU now completely unused, up from 40% year-over-year…
Cast AI creates low technical lock-in but moderate operational lock-in, according to a Cast AI analysis of its own Kubernetes node-provisioning product. The company states that Cast AI provisions stan…
CAST AI's guide to Karpenter best practices for production clusters on Amazon EKS details 10 configuration tips, including running the controller on dedicated nodes, using mutually exclusive NodePools…
According to the Cast AI 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization report, which analyzed 23,000+ clusters, the median CPU utilization across autoscaled EKS clusters is 8%, with 69% of Kubernetes clusters…
The Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler adds nodes reactively when pods are pending and removes them after a sustained underutilization window, with a default scale-down delay of 10 minutes and provisioning…
Cast AI's 2026 analysis of tens of thousands of production clusters on AWS, GCP, and Azure found average CPU utilization at 8% fleet-wide, down from 10% the prior year. The company identified seven ke…
Karpenter, an open-source node provisioner, directly provisions cloud instances without node groups, while Cluster Autoscaler scales pre-defined node groups. Karpenter is faster, cheaper, and more fle…