Use utilization evidence to right-size a workload before estimating or migrating cloud capacity.
The team is pricing a 24-core on-prem order service as an equivalent 24-core cloud VM, but utilization data shows 95th percentile CPU at 22 percent and memory at 48 percent. Right-size from measured utilization, then validate with monitoring and rollback capacity The common trap is treating provisioned hardware as demand. That preserves old procurement assumptions inside a variable-cost model. Collect utilization Review 30 days of CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, and batch-window peaks. A single average hides month-end or overnight spikes. Right-sizing needs peak pattern, not only typical load. Separate compute from licensing Check whether software licensing changes with core…
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