Footprint IT Solutions
IT Consultancy for Cloud, DevOps and FinOps. AWS and GCP Partner.
Published Dec 8, 2025
🚀 VELOCITY VIGNETTE #2: The "Zero-Waste" Cloud Switch
Welcome back to #FootprintVelocityVignette, where we dissect high-velocity engineering sprints that solve business problems in days, not months.
The Client’s Challenge: 📉 A leading digital enterprise was following standard cloud practice: running fixed "managed node groups" 24/7 to ensure capacity was ready "just in case" development traffic arrived. The reality? These servers sat idle for hours every day, burning budget on compute that wasn’t processing a single byte of value .
The 48-Hour Win (Radical Efficiency): ⏱️✂️…
Footprint IT Solutions
IT Consultancy for Cloud, DevOps and FinOps. AWS and GCP Partner.
Published Dec 8, 2025
🚀 VELOCITY VIGNETTE #2: The "Zero-Waste" Cloud Switch
Welcome back to #FootprintVelocityVignette, where we dissect high-velocity engineering sprints that solve business problems in days, not months.
The Client’s Challenge: 📉 A leading digital enterprise was following standard cloud practice: running fixed "managed node groups" 24/7 to ensure capacity was ready "just in case" development traffic arrived. The reality? These servers sat idle for hours every day, burning budget on compute that wasn’t processing a single byte of value .
The 48-Hour Win (Radical Efficiency): ⏱️✂️ We didn’t wait for a quarterly cost review. Our team executed a 48-hour infrastructure sprint, replacing the fixed server groups with Karpenter (an advanced open-source auto-scaler) running on AWS Fargate (serverless compute).
The Impact (The Repeatable Outcome):🔁
- Idle Costs Eliminated: We deleted the fixed servers permanently. The infrastructure now costs £0 when idle.
- Instant Scalability: The system scales instantly when traffic arrives, but costs nothing when the team is sleeping.
- Zero Operational Overhead: We transformed a fixed monthly operational expense (OpEx) into a purely efficient, usage-based utility.
Are you paying for cloud capacity that is sleeping on the job? 😴
📩 DM Steve Skinner to discuss a "Zero-Waste" infrastructure audit. We can often identify these savings in under 48 hours.
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