One traditional enterprise goal of 40% utilization was to cover DR/failovers, so one region could take on 100% of traffic from another, with 20% headroom.
I'm curious about the granularity of contracts around granting/selling excess capacity. Are they short term? Can the owner evict those workloads (with a penalty)?
Good point - people do set capacity aside, reserving it for later.
But our utilisation measurements are from waste within a users allocation. It’s waste of what users are actually requesting and running, not from any reserved idle capacity.
For now we sit only on the prediction/intelligence layer; we don’t do any scheduling. We don’t grant or sell capacity, we just tell the scheduler (and user) what a job actually needs.