Hold a 99.95% SLO or cut cloud costs by 30%?
Finance wants a 30% cut in cloud spend. Our internal SLO is 99.95%; the customer SLA is 99.9%. CPU averages 35% because we keep headroom for 3× traffic spikes. Option A: hold the SLO: find savings elsewhere, keep the headroom. Option B: relax the internal SLO to 99.9% (matching…