How we slashed our EKS costs by 43% with one simple scheduler tweak 🚀

By default, Kubernetes uses a leastAllocated scheduling strategy. Its goal is to be fair and resilient by spreading your application pods across as many nodes (servers) as possible. It looks for the node with the least workload and places the new pod there. While this is great for high availability, it's a nightmare for cost optimization in the cloud. Why? Because it leads to a cluster full of…