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Kubernetes Waste Calculator: how much is your environment wasting?
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The Kubernetes Waste Calculator estimates how much of your Kubernetes spend is recoverable. In seven questions it returns your monthly waste, reliability risks, and the engineer-hours lost to manual tuning. Akamas is the autonomous, full-stack optimization platform that cuts overprovisioning by right-sizing pods, runtimes, and nodes together.
Which of the following best describes your role?
We'll personalize the questions and results to what matters most to you.
What is your approximate monthly Kubernetes compute spend?
Include cloud provider charges for nodes running K8s workloads across all environments.
How many Kubernetes clusters are you running?
Across all environments - production, staging, development, and any regional deployments.
What runtime does the majority of your workloads use?
JVM and Node.js heap-to-pod mismatches are the leading hidden source of waste in K8s environments.
How are your Kubernetes resource requests and limits currently set?
How requests and limits are set is the single biggest predictor of overprovisioning in environments we analyze.
How many people actively own Kubernetes optimization?
Combined across Platform Engineering, SRE, and FinOps - not just one team.
Which of these has happened in the last 12 months?
Select all that apply.
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Estimated monthly waste
Based on patterns from similar environments
Estimates derived from Akamas customer data across comparable K8s environments. Actual results vary by environment complexity, configuration maturity, and workload type.