Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs
every service asked for four cores because that is what the template said, and the fleet averages eight percent CPU.
Overprovisioning
Also calledover-provisioning, oversized instances
Running more capacity than the workload needs, usually through copied defaults, fear of the last incident, or requests set from peak rather than from measurement. It is the largest single source of waste in most estates and the easiest to quantify, since utilisation data already exists. It is distinct from deliberate headroom, and telling the two apart is the first task of any cost exercise.