Lucas and Luna dig into the hidden cost crisis inside Kubernetes clusters — the so-called 'cluster tax' that silently inflates cloud bills. Lucas breaks down how a mid-sized SaaS company discovered its Kubernetes control plane, logging daemons, and idle pod overhead were costing $47,000 a month more than expected. They discuss why most teams track only compute and storage, missing the orchestrator tax entirely, and walk through three specific culprits: etcd node costs, redundant DaemonSets, and unused PVCs. A concrete toolkit for any team running containers in production, with a focus on AWS EKS and managed Kubernetes services from Azure and Google Cloud as of May 2026.

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