Why Kubernetes Is Driving Up Your Cloud Bill And When It Is Worth It

Kubernetes does not make infrastructure expensive by itself. It makes infrastructure mistakes easier to scale. That is the uncomfortable part. A small deployment mistake on one VM is annoying. The same mistake spread across dozens of services, node pools, namespaces, autoscalers, and environments becomes a monthly line item nobody can explain. This is why teams often adopt Kubernetes expecting better infrastructure efficiency, then six months later wonder why the cloud bill got harder to underst