Jesus Paz •
Installing ClusterCost on EKS, GKE, AKS — What’s the Difference?
Provider-specific tips for smooth installs and accurate pricing across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
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Insights on Kubernetes cost allocation, FinOps, and engineering efficiency.
Linda Cuanca •
Mastering Cron Expressions for Kubernetes CronJobs
Stop guessing asterisks. A guide to writing perfect schedule expressions for your K8s jobs.
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Daniel Paz •
How to Reduce Kubernetes Costs by 30% Without Touching Your Code
Rightsize nodes and pods, trim egress, and tighten quotas—fast wins that land this quarter.
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Linda Cuanca •
The Future of Kubernetes Cost Monitoring: Local First, Open Source, and Developer-Focused
Why the next wave of cost tools will live in your cluster, not in another SaaS.
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Daniel Paz •
Why JSON Validation Matters for DevOps Configuration
Terraform state files, IAM policies, and logging configs are all JSON. Here is why you need a dedicated verifier.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Build a FinOps-Ready Kubernetes Cluster From Day One
Bake in labels, guardrails, and price sheets so cost visibility is automatic—not a retrofit.
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Jesus Paz •
The Best Free Kubernetes YAML Validators in 2026
Don't break production with a typo. We review the top YAML validators and linters for DevOps engineers.
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Daniel Paz •
The Hidden Costs in Your Kubernetes Cluster You’re Probably Ignoring
Unused PVCs, zombie pods, cross-AZ traffic, and noisy sidecars quietly inflate your bill.
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Linda Cuanca •
Understanding Kubernetes Cost: A Practical Guide for Startups
What early-stage teams must watch: EKS control plane, nodes, load balancers, PVCs, and egress.
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Jesus Paz •
A Lightweight Approach to Kubernetes Cost Monitoring (No Extra Services Required)
How to monitor spend with a single agent, tight resource limits, and zero external dependencies.
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Linda Cuanca •
AWS EKS Fargate Pricing vs Managed Nodes (2025 Comparison)
Fargate scales to zero, but Managed Nodes allow Spot Instances. Which is cheaper for your workload?
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Daniel Paz •
Open-Source Kubernetes Tools Every Infra Engineer Should Know
A practical shortlist for 2025—cost, policy, debugging, and observability—with ClusterCost in the mix.
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Linda Cuanca •
Why We Built ClusterCost: The Story Behind the Project
Frustration with heavy cost platforms led us to a single-agent, developer-first tool.
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Daniel Paz •
AWS EKS Pricing Per Cluster: How to Calculate Your Total Bill
The $0.10/hour is just the start. Learn how to calculate the total cost of ownership for a standard EKS cluster.
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Jesus Paz •
The Simplest Architecture for Kubernetes Cost Monitoring
A single Go agent, one Helm chart, and zero extra databases—how to keep cost monitoring lean.
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Daniel Paz •
How to Install ClusterCost in 30 Seconds Using the CLI
The fastest path to cost visibility: a single command, no extra services, and results in minutes.
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Jesus Paz •
AWS EKS Control Plane Pricing in 2025: Is it still $0.10/hour?
A definitive guide to the fixed costs of running EKS clusters in 2025. We verify the hourly rate and hidden fees.
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Linda Cuanca •
A Complete Guide to Kubernetes Cost Allocation in 2025
Everything you need to attribute Kubernetes spend to teams and services—labels, allocation models, and guardrails.
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Jesus Paz •
The Problem With Most Kubernetes Cost Tools (And How We Fixed It)
Too many moving parts, too little actionability. Here’s our take on making cost monitoring boringly reliable.
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Daniel Paz •
How to Understand Your Kubernetes Costs Without Losing Your Mind
A simple model to read your bill: control plane, nodes, storage, data transfer, and shared services.
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Linda Cuanca •
Kubecost vs ClusterCost: A Developer-First Comparison for 2025
Which tool fits builders better? We compare setup time, footprint, dashboards, and policy controls.
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Jesus Paz •
Introducing ClusterCost: The Open-Source Kubernetes Cost Tool That’s Actually Simple
Why we built a fast, single-agent cost tool that installs in minutes and keeps engineers, not finance, in the driver’s seat.
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Linda Cuanca •
The FinOps Guide to Managing NAT Gateway Spend
How to budget, tag, and govern networking costs so they don't surprise you at month-end.
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Jesus Paz •
Kubernetes Agents for Cluster Cost Control
Why cost-aware agents belong in your cluster and how they keep EKS bills predictable.
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Daniel Paz •
AWS Data Transfer Traps That Drain Your Budget
It’s not just the NAT Gateway. Here are 3 other networking charges that silently inflate your cloud bill.
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Linda Cuanca •
AWS EKS Hybrid Pricing: Outposts vs. Local Zones vs. Wavelength
Running Kubernetes at the edge? We compare the pricing models of EKS Anywhere, Outposts, Local Zones, and Wavelength to help you choose.
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Jesus Paz •
Stop Paying for Idle NAT Gateways in Staging Environments
A guide to automating the shutdown of expensive networking resources when developers sleep.
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Daniel Paz •
The Cost of High Availability: Multi-AZ NAT Gateways
Is 99.99% uptime worth tripling your network bill? We do the math.
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Daniel Paz •
Open Source vs SaaS: Where to Draw the Line
Should you self-host Prometheus? What about your database? Here is our framework for 'Buy vs Build'.
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Linda Cuanca •
Year-End Kubernetes Cost Cleanup Checklist
A 90-minute sweep to enter the new year with lean clusters, clean quotas, and predictable budgets.
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Linda Cuanca •
How to Detect and Drain Idle Kubernetes Nodes Automatically
A playbook for identifying underutilized nodes and safely removing them without downtime.
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Jesus Paz •
Tool Spotlight: K9s Power User Tricks
You probably use K9s. But do you use the Pulse view? Or the XRay? Here are 3 tricks to master the terminal UI.
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Jesus Paz •
Run a Cost Game Day Before Peak Traffic
Rehearse how your platform reacts to spend spikes so peak season doesn’t surprise finance or SRE.
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Jesus Paz •
What Happens to Your Bill When Kubernetes Goes Idle?
Why 'Scale to Zero' is a lie for most clusters, and how much you pay for empty nodes.
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Jesus Paz •
Why Prometheus Metrics Aren't Billing Data
Trying to calculate your cloud bill using PromQL? Here is why your numbers never match the AWS invoice, and why you need a reconciliation layer.
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Daniel Paz •
Onboard New Teams to Your Kubernetes Cluster Without Bill Shock
A starter kit of templates, quotas, and budgets so new services land safely on day one.
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Daniel Paz •
How to Use Our AWS NAT Gateway Pricing Calculator
A step-by-step guide to modeling your network costs and finding the break-even point for high availability.
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Linda Cuanca •
Platform Cost Scorecards for Engineering Teams
A lightweight scorecard to show every team how their services perform on cost, reliability, and guardrail adoption.
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Linda Cuanca •
Cheaper Alternatives to AWS NAT Gateway for Dev Clusters
You don't need a $32/month gateway for a development cluster. Here are 3 ways to pay less.
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Linda Cuanca •
The State of FinOps 2025
FinOps is moving from 'Reporting' to 'Engineering'. The era of the passive dashboard is over.
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Jesus Paz •
Logging and Observability Costs in Kubernetes: Tame the Sidecars
Sidecars and verbose logs can double your bill. Here’s how to cut observability spend without losing signal.
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Jesus Paz •
Standard NAT Gateway V2 Pricing: Is It Worth It?
Clarifying the confusion around 'NAT Gateway V2' and what standard pricing actually means.
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Jesus Paz •
Bash Script: Clean Up Evicted Pods
Evicted pods clutter your output and confuse your tools. Here is a safe one-liner to delete them all.
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Daniel Paz •
Data Processing Fees: The Hidden Part of NAT Gateway Pricing
Does AWS charge for data in, data out, or both? We clarify the confusion around processing fees.
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Linda Cuanca •
Understanding AWS NAT Gateway Regional Pricing
How NAT Gateway costs vary between US-East, Europe, and Asia regions.
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Daniel Paz •
Build a FinOps Backlog Engineers Will Actually Ship
Rank cost optimizations by ROI and effort so teams pick the wins that matter—not just the ones that are easy.
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Jesus Paz •
Regional NAT Gateway Cost vs. Zonal: Which is Cheaper?
Why 'Regional' NAT Gateways don't really exist in AWS, and how Zonal architecture affects your bottom line.
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Linda Cuanca •
Unit Economics: Calculating Cost Per Tenant
Stop looking at your total AWS bill. Start looking at your Cost Per Customer. Here is the formula for multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.
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Jesus Paz •
The EC2 NAT Gateway Charge: Why Your Bill is High
Deciphering the 'EC2-Other' line item on your AWS bill and finding the hidden NAT costs.
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Linda Cuanca •
Your Spot vs On-Demand Mix for Kubernetes, Explained
A simple playbook to choose how much of your cluster should run on spot without risking reliability.
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Linda Cuanca •
AWS VPC NAT Gateway Pricing: Real-World Examples
From startups to enterprises: See actual monthly bills for NAT Gateways in different scenarios.
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Daniel Paz •
How Much Is an AWS NAT Gateway? (It’s More Than You Think)
A simple answer to the monthly price of a NAT Gateway, plus why the data processing fees often double the bill.
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Linda Cuanca •
The Hidden Egress Traps in Kubernetes
Most cloud bills spike from data transfer, not compute. Map your east-west and egress paths before they drain your margin.
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Jesus Paz •
AWS NAT Gateway Pricing in 2025: A Complete Breakdown
Understand the two hidden components of NAT Gateway pricing and how to calculate your monthly bill.
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Daniel Paz •
Why We Don't Use Helm for Everything
Helm is great for installing 3rd party apps. It is terrible for managing your own internal microservices. Here's why.
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Daniel Paz •
Cost-Aware SLOs for Kubernetes
Pair latency and availability targets with spend guardrails so reliability does not blow up your cloud bill.
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Daniel Paz •
Quick Tip: Debugging CrashLoopBackOff
Pod crashing immediately? Here is how to debug it when 'kubectl logs' returns nothing.
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Jesus Paz •
AI Rightsizing for Kubernetes: Start with the Boring Baseline
Before you trust ML to resize pods, fix your signals, budgets, and guardrails. Otherwise AI just automates bad guesses.
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Jesus Paz •
Graceful Shutdowns: Surviving Spot Interruptions
Spot Instances are cheap until they break your app. Here is the boilerplate code you need to handle SIGTERM and preStop hooks correctly.
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Jesus Paz •
The Art of Kubernetes Request Sizing
Stop guessing your CPU and RAM requests. A data-driven guide to right-sizing your pods without killing performance.
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Linda Cuanca •
The 80/20 Rule of Kubernetes Cost: Stop Obsessing Over Micro-Optimizations
You don't need AI-driven anomaly detection to save money. You need to fix your Node Rightsizing and Requests. Here is the strategy.
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Daniel Paz •
The Hidden Cost of EKS Control Plane
It's not just $73/month. The real cost of EKS is in the add-ons, the upgrades, and the complexity.
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Daniel Paz •
Why We Built a CLI for FinOps (And Why GUIs Fail Engineers)
Cost data shouldn't live in a separate dashboard behind a login screen. It belongs in your terminal, right next to kubectl.
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Daniel Paz •
Kubectl Command: Finding Top CPU Consumers
A one-liner to instantly see which pods are hogging your cluster's CPU. No dashboard required.
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Linda Cuanca •
Quarterly Cost Planning for Kubernetes Teams
A lightweight QBR template that aligns engineering, finance, and product on spend, savings, and bets.
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Daniel Paz •
Pre-Production Cost Hygiene: Stop Paying for Idle Environments
Staging and QA often cost as much as prod. Here’s how to cut that in half without slowing releases.
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Jesus Paz •
Guardrails for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Without Slowing Teams Down
Use policies, quotas, and network controls that keep costs predictable while preserving developer autonomy.
kubernetes multi-tenant finops
Jesus Paz •
Self-Hosted Focalboard vs. SaaS: Kubernetes Cost Analysis
Is it cheaper to run self-hosted Focalboard on a tiny Kubernetes cluster? We break down the cost for side projects and teams.
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Linda Cuanca •
Platform Engineering KPIs That Actually Lower Cloud Spend
Measure platform outcomes that correlate with lower Kubernetes bills instead of vanity DevOps metrics.
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Daniel Paz •
The FinOps Cost Incident Runbook for Kubernetes
A step-by-step playbook to triage sudden spend spikes and prevent them from happening again.
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Jesus Paz •
Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Agents: The Observability Tax
Every agent you install (Datadog, Splunk, Istio) taxes your CPU and Memory. Learn how to calculate the true cost of your DaemonSets.
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Jesus Paz •
AWS NAT Gateway Pricing: The Ultimate Cost Reduction Guide
Why is your AWS bill so high? It's probably NAT Gateways. Learn the 'Double Dip' trap, see the architecture diagrams, and discover 3 cheaper alternatives.
aws networking cost-optimization finops
Linda Cuanca •
Namespace Chargeback Cookbook for Kubernetes
A practical recipe to turn namespace labels into monthly cost statements that engineers trust.
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Jesus Paz •
Build Cost Gates into Your Kubernetes CI/CD
Add budget checks to pull requests and deployments so cost surprises never hit production.
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Jesus Paz •
Kubernetes CPU Limits: To Throttle or Not?
The great debate: Should you set CPU limits in Kubernetes? We dive into CFS quotas, throttling latency, and why 'Requests Only' might be the better FinOps move.
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Jesus Paz •
The Hidden Cost of Spot Instances: Why Cheap Compute Can Be Expensive
Spot instances promise 90% savings, but interruptions, data transfer, and engineering fatigue can wipe that out. Here is when NOT to use them.
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Jesus Paz •
AWS EKS Pricing Calculator 2025: Estimate Your EKS Breakdown
Calculate your total Amazon EKS cost, including the control plane ($0.10/hour), managed nodes, and Fargate. Updated for 2025 pricing.
aws eks pricing
Jesus Paz •
Top 10 Mistakes That Make Kubernetes Expensive and Slow
A punchy list of cost and reliability anti-patterns plus the fixes that ClusterCost users apply in the real world.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Build an Internal Kubernetes Cost Dashboard Using Open-Source Tools
Combine ClusterCost’s OSS dashboard with Grafana and Parquet exports to give every stakeholder actionable insights.
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Jesus Paz •
Why FinOps Needs Kubernetes-Aware Cost Tools (Not Just AWS Billing Data)
Traditional AWS reports miss pods, namespaces, and tenants—FinOps teams need workload-aware telemetry to drive action.
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Jesus Paz •
Understanding Kubernetes Resource Requests vs Limits (and Why They Affect Your Bill)
Requests keep the cluster stable, limits prevent noisy neighbors, and both drive cost—here’s how to tune them.
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Jesus Paz •
Best Practices for Tagging AWS Infrastructure for Accurate Cost Allocation
Adopt a battle-tested tagging schema that keeps ClusterCost, AWS Billing, and finance dashboards in sync.
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Jesus Paz •
Kubernetes Cost Calculator Template (Free Excel & Sheets)
A free, open-source model to forecast cluster spend. Stop guessing and start planning with this template.
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Jesus Paz •
The Real Cost of Idle Kubernetes Nodes and How to Eliminate Them
Quantify zombie capacity, catch misconfigured autoscalers, and automate remediation with ClusterCost.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Forecast Kubernetes Costs Using Basic Metrics (No AI Needed)
Blend ClusterCost exports with simple math to predict spend per namespace, team, or customer.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Compute Cost per ECS Task When Using EC2 or Fargate
Detailed formulas for allocating EC2 and Fargate spend to each ECS task, including shared networking and storage.
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Jesus Paz •
Why Your Cloud Bill is Wrong: The Problems with AWS Cost Explorer for Kubernetes
AWS Cost Explorer cannot see pods, namespaces, or spot dynamics—learn the gaps and how ClusterCost fills them.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Cut Kubernetes Costs by 30–50% Using Node Right-Sizing
Model better instance families, blend spot/on-demand capacity, and validate savings with ClusterCost.
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Jesus Paz •
The Ultimate Guide to EKS Pricing: Nodes, Control Plane, Storage, Networking
Understand every line item that ends up on your EKS bill and how to forecast costs before creating a cluster.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Detect Over-Provisioned Kubernetes Pods Automatically
Use bin packing strategies and our millicore-to-core calculator logic to right-size pods and stop paying for air.
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Jesus Paz •
Kubernetes vs ECS: Which Platform Gives You Better Cost Efficiency?
Compare pricing levers, operational overhead, and optimization pathways before committing to Kubernetes or ECS.
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Jesus Paz •
A Practical Guide to Allocating AWS Costs to Teams, Clients, or Environments
Adopt a tagging blueprint, reporting cadence, and governance model that keeps engineering and finance aligned.
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Jesus Paz •
How to Estimate the Cost of Each Namespace in Kubernetes (With Real Examples)
Walk through two anonymized namespaces and learn the math behind their monthly AWS charges.
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Jesus Paz •
The Hidden Ways Kubernetes Makes Your AWS Bill Explode (and How to Fix It)
Identify the ten most expensive Kubernetes anti-patterns and learn the exact playbooks to eliminate them.
kubernetes optimization
Jesus Paz •
How to See the Cost of Each Kubernetes Pod (Even if You Use Spot or Mixed Nodes)
Follow this framework to price every pod accurately across on-demand, reserved, and spot node groups.
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Jesus Paz •
ECS Cost Allocation 101: How Much Does Each Service Really Cost?
Break down ECS spend per service, task, and environment—even when you mix EC2 and Fargate.
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Jesus Paz •
The Complete Guide to Kubernetes Cost Allocation: Pods, Namespaces, and Services
Learn how to align Kubernetes spend with the workloads and teams that generate it, without drowning in spreadsheets.
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Jesus Paz •
The Ultimate Guide to Kubernetes Cluster Cost Allocation (2025)
Stop guessing. Learn the '5 Pillars' framework for calculating the true cost of your Kubernetes clusters, from nodes to shared services.
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