Capacity Planning: Right-Size Your Infrastructure

Right-sizing pods helps at the container level, but oversized or poorly packed node groups keep infrastructure costs high. Capacity planning targets the infrastructure itself.

See every node group with its instance type, node count, spot vs. on-demand split, and current utilization — highlighting low packing density and idle capacity.

Concrete savings with projected monthly impact and risk assessment:

• Pool consolidation: merge underutilized node groups running similar workloads
• Spot ratio optimization: increase spot percentage for fault-tolerant workloads
• Graviton/ARM migration: switch to ARM-based instances for 20-30% cost reduction
• Instance type downsizing: replace oversized instances based on actual demand

Select a scenario and compare projected cost, utilization, and packing density against your current setup before committing.

Go to Cluster > Capacity Planning to get started.