Monitoring shows a municipal VM averaging about 8% CPU for several months with no planned load spike. What cost action best addresses that waste?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Leaving a huge truck idling in the city lot when a compact sedan would do the job is pure burn. Rightsizing means shrink the VM to match the real CPU you are actually using. The workload still runs — you just stop paying for empty horsepower.
Full Explanation
Rightsizing aligns instance capacity with measured utilization so organizations avoid paying for unused vCPU and memory. Sustained low CPU with no forthcoming demand increase is a classic rightsizing candidate. Changing placement to dedicated hosts, hiding metrics, or altering the OS does not correct over-provisioned capacity.