The 7 Kubernetes Cost Drivers Most Teams Miss
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 keβ¦
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 keβ¦
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 fleβ¦
By 2026, AI workloads will consume roughly 40% of enterprise Kubernetes clusters, but the default scheduler is ill-suited for GPU-intensive tasks, leading to 30-45% GPU utilization rates and wasted coβ¦
According to the 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report by CAST AI, average CPU utilization in Kubernetes clusters sits at 8% and memory utilization at 20%, meaning roughly 80% of container spenβ¦