AKS IS GROWING – ALONG WITH ITS KUBERNETES UTILIZATION PROBLEM

Summary from the TLDR DevOps newsletter

Per the 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, AKS CPU utilization fell to 8% and memory to 20%, with CPU overprovisioning at 69%. GPU utilization averages 5% overall and 2% on AKS, driven by conservative resource requests that are rarely revisited.