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.