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…