# 70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS

DevFeed: [70% cheaper Kubernetes cluster on AWS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/70-cheaper-kubernetes-cluster-on-aws-37798.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/k8s-sandbox-costs/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2017-04-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>), [Bash](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bash.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [bash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bash.md>), [clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clusters.md>), [deployments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployments.md>), [ingress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ingress.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [limits](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/limits.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nginx.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [sandbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sandbox.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial describes strategies for reducing the cost of a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on AWS by about 70%. It covers tuning pod resource requests and limits, routing services through one nginx Ingress load balancer, and scaling down idle deployments with a Bash script.

## Source excerpt

We are running Kubernetes on both sandbox and production for some months now. Our production cluster is still small, with few services running on it, but, most of our sandbox environment is running on a Kubernetes cluster on AWS.