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IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 7, 2025 · Cloud Native

Mastering Elastic Scaling on Kubernetes: Cut Costs While Handling Traffic Peaks

This article explains how to design elastic scaling architectures on cloud platforms—combining horizontal, vertical, and functional scaling, leveraging Kubernetes autoscaling features, predictive scaling, mixed instance strategies, and cost‑monitoring practices—to handle traffic spikes while minimizing expenses.

Cloud Cost OptimizationDevOpsautoscaling
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Mastering Elastic Scaling on Kubernetes: Cut Costs While Handling Traffic Peaks
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 31, 2023 · Backend Development

Why Prime Video Dropped Microservices for a Monolith and Cut Costs 90%

Prime Video’s engineers detail how abandoning a costly micro‑service and serverless setup for a streamlined monolithic architecture on EC2/ECS cut infrastructure expenses by over 90 % while boosting scalability, challenging the prevailing cloud‑native hype.

AWSCloud Cost OptimizationMicroservices
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Why Prime Video Dropped Microservices for a Monolith and Cut Costs 90%
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Aug 4, 2023 · Cloud Computing

FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization Practices at Bilibili – A Case Study

Bilibili’s FinOps initiative transformed its hybrid‑cloud environment by establishing cross‑department collaboration, deploying a multi‑cloud management platform, and leveraging data‑driven budgeting and vendor selection, enabling systematic detection of waste, precise resource attribution, and continuous cost‑reduction while supporting sustainable, low‑carbon operations.

BilibiliCloud Cost OptimizationCost Management
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FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization Practices at Bilibili – A Case Study
Huolala Tech
Huolala Tech
Jan 12, 2023 · Cloud Computing

How Huolala Cut Cloud Costs and Boost Efficiency with FinOps

This article examines Huolala's comprehensive cloud cost governance strategy, detailing infrastructure distribution, cost‑trend analysis, optimization tactics such as storage, networking, logging, spot instances, containerization, reserved instances, and the role of the Lcloud platform in achieving measurable savings and operational efficiency.

Cloud Cost OptimizationFinOpsResource Management
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How Huolala Cut Cloud Costs and Boost Efficiency with FinOps
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Jul 4, 2022 · Cloud Computing

The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization

This guide explains why cloud cost optimization is essential, shares real‑world savings from companies like Pinterest, Zoom and Spotify, and provides practical steps—including bill analysis, right‑sizing, Spot instance usage, reserved capacity planning, and automation tools—to help organizations reduce cloud expenses and improve financial predictability.

AWSCloud Cost Optimizationbudgeting
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The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 11, 2020 · Cloud Native

Building an IoT Air Quality Monitoring System with Cloud-Native: A Micro-Team Case Study

A five‑person micro‑team built the E‑Min atmospheric monitoring system using Tencent’s IoT and cloud‑native services, creating a three‑layer prototype in 20 hours, scaling to 27 nodes and 20 million records, cutting yearly node costs below one yuan, and opening the architecture for broader ecosystem applications.

Air Quality MonitoringCloud Cost OptimizationCloud Native
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Building an IoT Air Quality Monitoring System with Cloud-Native: A Micro-Team Case Study