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Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Kubernetes Pod Eviction Costs
Episode 117 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna dig into the latest fine print coming out of AWS, Azure, and GCP: charges triggered when a Kubernetes pod is evicted from a node due to resource pressure or node failure. They walk through a real scenario — a mid-size e-commerce company running 1,200 pods on Spot instances — and show how a 3-minute eviction wave last month generated $14,000 in new line items for control plane API calls, volume detachment, and reattachment fees. They compare how each hyperscaler prices the same event, and discuss whether these costs are a necessary…
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