Consolidation on nanta - Data Engineeringhttps://nanta-data.dev/en/tags/consolidation/Recent content in Consolidation on nanta - Data EngineeringHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 nantaThu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000EKS AI Serving Node Cost Reduction: Instance Diversification, Consolidation, and Scheduled Scalinghttps://nanta-data.dev/en/posts/eks-ai-platform-cost-saving/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nanta-data.dev/en/posts/eks-ai-platform-cost-saving/An AI platform team’s serving API was running 500 fixed pods on only two on-demand instance types (c6i.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge). We applied instance type diversification and Karpenter consolidation as phase 1, then KEDA cron-trigger scheduled scaling as phase 2. Key finding: consolidation alone has limited effect when pod count is fixed — it needs scale-in to actually reduce node count.