Kubernetes Is Eating Your Budget: How to Fix EKS Over-Provisioning (opens in new tab)

We’ve all experienced the comfort of deploying to AWS EKS—it scales seamlessly, handles failovers, and takes the operational stress out of managing control planes. But that seamless scalability often hides a painful reality: most development teams are aggressively paying for empty headroom. According to the 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report by CAST AI, average CPU utilization in Kubernetes clusters sits at a jaw-dropping 8%, while memory utilization stalls at 20%. This means roughl...