BrandPost: Part 2: How to Avoid the Sneaky (and Costly) Public Cloud Instance “Bump-Up” Loop

In the first blog in this series, we looked at why it’s so important to look at an application’s workload patterns when sizing for any public cloud, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and others. In this post, we’ll look at another common pitfall that we call the cloud instance “bump-up loop.”Here’s how it works. You use a reporting tool that says your application workload is running at nearly 100% utilization for 3 hours overnight (see fig