Often in on-premise environments, workloads get over-provisioned. Many times, this is due to not knowing which AWS EC2 instance type is best for your organization’s needs.

You might find that you’re maxing the number of cores but are only utilizing ¾ of the available memory (or vice versa). You over-provision as a practice, just to be safe. After all, it’s better to have too many than too few resources available, right?

However, your on-premise infrastructure, although reliable, doesn’t have the granular scaling tha