1. Gaining Visibility into Spend
Startups are leveraging advanced cloud cost management tools to monitor real-time usage and spending patterns. This spending awareness enables them to make data-driven decisions and identify unexpected cost spikes early.
2. Rightsizing Resources
Many startups initially over-provision cloud capacities to prepare for growth, leading to underutilized resources. Smart startups regularly assess workloads to rightsize instances, scaling down unused capacity and scaling up only when needed.
3. Leveraging Pricing Models and Discounts
Startups are renegotiating contracts with cloud providers to secure reserved instances, savings plans, or spot instances that offer significant discounts for predictable or flexible workloads, greatly reducing recurring costs.
4. Automating Cost Optimization
Automation is becoming a game-changer. Startups employ autoscaling, ephemeral development environments that shut down when idle, and automated shutdowns for non-production resources, all reducing wasted spend.
At Kepula, we help startups implement these cost-saving techniques through custom consultancy and innovative software tools. The goal is maintaining peak performance and flexibility, while ensuring costs grow sustainably alongside your business.
Cutting cloud costs doesn’t mean sacrificing value. With the right strategies and partners, startups can build scalable, cost-effective cloud architectures that fuel growth and innovation.
