ThnkBIG and Kubecost partner to reduce Kubernetes costs

*February 24, 2023*
We are proud to announce a partnership between Kubecost and ThnkBIG, a U.S. based cloud native and Kubernetes consultancy. ThnkBIG services’ include service mesh, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud native networking, observability implementation, cloud migration, cloud native architecture design, CI/CD productivity, and of course Kubernetes consulting.
**Kubecost Technology**
Kubecost has been deployed by more than 5,000 organizations and manages more than $2 billion in Kubernetes spending. Built on Kubecost’s core open source technology, Kubecost Enterprise equips an organization’s technical team with an on-demand tool for achieving specific cost estimates, investigating workload traffic anomalies, and understanding the behavior of individual services.
**Kubecost Partner Program**
The partnership was driven out of the Kubecost Partner Program. Through a selective process, Kubecost enables premier global partners to help enterprises successfully monitor and optimize their Kubernetes deployments. Together, ThnkBIG and Kubecost will deliver next-generation Kubernetes monitoring to customers through the licensing of Kubecost Enterprise.
**Professional Kubernetes Consulting Services**
ThnkBIG recognizes that client satisfaction is about more than just technical expertise. The company prides itself on providing exceptional customer service and a personalized approach to each engagement, ensuring that its customers receive the highest level of customer service. Its goal is to become a trusted partner for their clients, providing ongoing support and guidance as they navigate the complexities of adopting cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes.
“We've been architecting, deploying, and operating Kubernetes environments since 2016. We have since expanded to work with clients in various industries and are a proud member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and The Linux Foundation. Our team of engineers is passionate about emerging technologies and working with our clients to help them achieve their goals'' stated Rudy McComb, ThnkBIG founder and CEO.
The partnership between Kubecost and ThnkBIG ensures U.S. based organizations have the combined power of the market leading Kubernetes monitoring platform and other best in class cloud native technologies. Together, ThnkBIG customers will see immediate and actionable cost saving recommendations.
“We are honored to partner with ThnkBIG. The alignment of our Kubernetes cost optimization platform, plus ThnkBIG’s DevOps and site reliability engineering services provides a strong solution for customers in the U.S.'' said Alex Thilen, Head of Business Development for Kubecost.
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Key Takeaways

• Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility at the namespace, deployment, and pod level — giving engineering teams the data they need to optimize cloud spend without guessing.
• The THNKBIG and Kubecost partnership brings together cost observability and operational expertise to help enterprises reduce Kubernetes cloud costs by 30-50%.
• FinOps practices adopted alongside Kubecost — shared cost allocation, showback, and chargeback — change engineering behavior at the team level and drive lasting savings.

Why Kubernetes Cost Visibility Is Hard Without Dedicated Tooling

Cloud billing APIs report costs at the resource level — EC2 instances, persistent volumes, load balancers. They do not know which Kubernetes namespace consumed those resources, which deployment drove the most traffic, or which team is responsible for the spend. Kubecost solves this by instrumenting the cluster directly, correlating resource usage with Kubernetes metadata, and producing cost allocation reports that map to your organizational structure.

In a typical enterprise Kubernetes environment, Kubecost surfaces three categories of waste: idle resources (CPU and memory reserved but not used), inefficient autoscaling (nodes provisioned too large for workload patterns), and abandoned resources (persistent volumes and load balancers orphaned when workloads were deleted). Combined, these categories account for 20-40% of cloud spend in most clusters we audit.

The THNKBIG and Kubecost Engagement Model

Our partnership with Kubecost extends beyond the tool itself. THNKBIG engineers deploy and configure Kubecost, integrate it with your cloud billing APIs and shared infrastructure costs (cluster management fees, networking), and build the cost allocation model that matches your organization's chargebacks. We also run the optimization analysis — identifying the specific deployments, node pools, and storage configurations driving the highest waste.

US-based clients across Texas and California have reduced Kubernetes cloud costs by an average of 35% within 90 days of a joint THNKBIG and Kubecost engagement. Learn more about our Kubernetes FinOps practice or contact us to schedule a cost audit.

THNKBIG has announced a partnership with Kubecost, the leading Kubernetes cost monitoring platform, to provide U.S.-based enterprises with real-time Kubernetes cost visibility combined with hands-on operational optimization.

Partnership Overview

Kubecost is deployed by over 5,000 organizations worldwide and manages more than $2B in Kubernetes spend. Built on open source, Kubecost Enterprise gives engineering teams on-demand cost visibility by: