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Rightsizing: Finding the Goldilocks Zone

FinOps for Scalable Infrastructure

What is Rightsizing?

Giving your application exactly what it needs—no more, no less.

The Data

Look at CPU and RAM utilization logs. If a machine is constantly below 10% CPU, it is a candidate for a smaller instance type.

Tools

  • AWS Compute Optimizer
  • Azure Advisor

Terraform Refactoring

We will change our m5.4xlarge (Expensive) to a t3.medium (Cheap) in our lab script.