Experiencing sudden spikes in your Amazon EC2 instances? High CPU usage can lead to application downtime, sluggish performance, and massive billing surprises. Our guide breaks down how to identify "noisy neighbors," optimize multi-threaded workloads, and implement auto-scaling policies to ensure your AWS infrastructure remains lean, cost-effective, and lightning-fast.
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Reduced CPU spikes from 98% to 45% during Black Friday by implementing Redis Caching.
Optimized Docker containers to save $15k/month in AWS Fargate costs.
Migrated legacy Java apps to Graviton3 instances for 30% better performance.
Solved "Noisy Neighbor" issues in multi-tenant EC2 environments.
Fixed UDP packet loss causing CPU interrupts on high-tick-rate servers.
Secured PHI data while reducing RDS CPU overhead via indexing.
Managed GPU/CPU balance for LLM inference training clusters.
Automated instance patching without interrupting live CPU cycles.
Handled 500% traffic growth using Predictive Auto-Scaling.
Hardened AWS security group rules which reduced "Bot-driven" CPU load.
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Common causes include inefficient application code, high traffic volumes, background cron jobs, and 'noisy neighbor' effects on shared T-series instances.
Burstable instances (T2/T3) use a credit system. Once you run out of CPU credits, your performance is throttled to a baseline level, causing apparent high usage.
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