Stopping Kubernetes cloud waste: agentic automation for enterprise fleets

Enterprises often waste up to 30% of their Kubernetes expenses on unused resources due to issues like orphaned environments, over-provisioned requests, and inadequate autoscaling. Traditional cost dashboards and reactive autoscalers lack the business context needed to reclaim idle resources effectively. An agentic control plane offers a solution by translating fleet-wide cost policies into provider-specific actions, enabling the automatic hibernation of non-production environments and optimizing workloads based on actual usage. This centralized approach, exemplified by platforms like Qovery, reduces the cloud tax associated with unmanaged Kubernetes fleets by eliminating structural waste and allowing for more strategic resource management. Qovery acts as a centralized layer that implements intent-based reclamation, shifting the cost governance from engineers to the platform and treating multi-cloud infrastructure as a single, programmable compute pool. This model not only addresses the inefficiencies of passive dashboards and reactive scaling but also aligns resource usage with business needs, allowing organizations to systematically reduce cloud waste and reinvest recovered budgets into product development.

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