A practical 2026 guide to slashing AWS EKS compute costs with Karpenter v1: Spot-first NodePools, consolidation policies, disruption budgets, dual-pool patterns, and the YAML you can copy into production today.
A production-grade guide to migrating EC2, EKS, Lambda, and RDS from x86 to AWS Graviton4 in 2026 — compatibility checks, multi-arch Docker builds, Karpenter node pools, honest benchmarks, and stacking Graviton savings with Compute Savings Plans for 60%+ effective discounts.
Compute accounts for 30–70% of cloud spending, making it your biggest optimization opportunity. This guide covers right-sizing, commitment discounts, spot instances, ARM processors, scheduling, and auto-scaling across AWS, Azure, and GCP — with scripts and strategies to cut your bill by 50% or more.