How Delivery Hero uses Kubecost and Datadog to manage Kubernetes costs in the cloud

Delivery Hero, a leading local delivery platform, has successfully managed to scale its operation during the pandemic by leveraging Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EKS. However, operating shared Kubernetes clusters made it difficult for them to fully understand their cloud costs. To address this issue, they used custom Datadog dashboards that combined Kubernetes usage metrics with detailed cost data from Kubecost. They also utilized memory and CPU request recommendations from Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) to evaluate and revise their clusters' resource allocations. This approach has led to a 10 percent decrease in Delivery Hero's cloud costs over 48 days, with an ongoing goal of reducing overall cloud costs by 30 percent.