Infrastructure Cost Optimization Questions

Methods and tradeoffs for reducing infrastructure spend while preserving reliability and performance. Topics include gaining cost visibility through tagging and cost allocation, rightsizing compute and storage resources, selecting appropriate pricing and committed capacity options, using preemptible or spot capacity for non critical workloads, storage tiering and lifecycle policies, reducing data transfer and cross region costs through architecture choices, optimizing autoscaling schedules and workload placement, and quantifying savings versus operational risk and complexity. Candidates may be asked to propose prioritized cost reduction plans with estimated savings and mitigation of operational risk.