# Better Than Overprovisioning: Underprovision Your Cloud Services

DevFeed: [Better Than Overprovisioning: Underprovision Your Cloud Services](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/better-than-overprovisioning-underprovision-your-cloud-services-15401.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.fermyon.com/blog/underprovisioning-cloud-services>)

Author: Matt Butcher

Published: 2022-08-04T00:07:37Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Fermyon - Experience the next wave of cloud computing.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/fermyon-experience-the-next-wave-of-cloud-computing.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that deliberately underprovisioning cloud services may be a better solution than simply improving right-sizing practices for overprovisioned infrastructure.

## Source excerpt

As a matter of routine business, we have gotten comfortable with overprovisioning our cloud services. We might think that the best solution is to come up with a better way of right-sizing our provisioning. But the best solution might just be underprovisioning.