Infrastructure Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency Questions

Discuss strategies and operational practices for controlling infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability and performance. Topics include right sizing compute and storage resources identifying and reclaiming idle capacity purchasing strategies such as reserved or spot capacity autoscaling and scheduling workloads storage tiering and data lifecycle policies efficient networking design tagging and cost allocation and observability for cost drivers. Be prepared to discuss trade offs between cost savings and availability governance processes for budgets and chargebacks and generic tooling and metrics for monitoring and reporting cost.