How does Sedai ensure safe cloud optimization?

Sedai is the only cloud optimization platform patented for safe, autonomous optimizations in production. It uses gradual, validated steps and continuous health checks to ensure no incidents or SLO breaches occur. Sedai holds eight U.S. patents for its safety mechanisms, guaranteeing that every change is reversible and validated before rollout. Learn more.

Has Sedai ever caused an incident in production?

No. Sedai has never caused an incident in production. Its patented safety-first approach ensures that optimizations are always validated and reversible, providing unmatched reliability for critical infrastructure. See why.

What makes Sedai's autonomous actions safer than other optimizers?

Sedai's patented process takes gradual steps, continuously validates changes, and automatically rolls back if health checks fail. Unlike risky optimizers that make all-at-once changes, Sedai's approach prevents outages and ensures production safety. Read more.

What are Sedai's core features?

Sedai offers autonomous cloud optimization, proactive issue resolution, full-stack coverage (compute, storage, data), release intelligence, plug-and-play implementation, and enterprise-grade governance. It operates across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments. See solution briefs.

How does Sedai optimize cloud costs?

Sedai eliminates waste by rightsizing workloads, tuning scaling, and optimizing nodes and clusters. It reduces cloud costs by up to 50% through autonomous actions based on real application needs. Learn more.

How does Sedai improve application performance?

Sedai finds ideal settings for apps and infrastructure in real time, reducing latency by up to 75%. For example, Belcorp achieved a 77% reduction in AWS Lambda latency using Sedai. See case studies.

How does Sedai increase cloud availability?

Sedai detects and fixes availability issues before they cause outages, predicting future resource needs and proactively resolving problems. This reduces failed customer interactions by up to 50%. Learn more.

What modes of operation does Sedai offer?

Sedai offers Datapilot (observability), Copilot (one-click optimizations), and Autopilot (fully autonomous execution). Users can start in Copilot and switch to Autopilot for full automation. See platform details.

Does Sedai support containers, VMs, serverless, storage, and data streaming?

Yes. Sedai boosts performance for containers, VMs, serverless, storage, and data streaming by rightsizing workloads, tuning scaling, and optimizing clusters. Supported platforms include Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, and more. See supported platforms.

What is Sedai's Release Intelligence feature?

Release Intelligence tracks changes in cost, latency, and errors for each deployment, improving release quality and minimizing risks. Companies like Freshworks have benefited from smoother releases using this feature. Read case study.

How long does it take to implement Sedai?

Sedai's setup process takes just 5 minutes for general use cases and up to 15 minutes for specific scenarios like AWS Lambda. For complex environments, timelines may vary. Book a demo.

How easy is it to start using Sedai?

Sedai offers plug-and-play implementation, agentless integration via IAM, personalized onboarding sessions, and extensive documentation. Customers can schedule one-on-one onboarding calls and access a 30-day free trial. See documentation.

What onboarding support does Sedai provide?

Sedai provides personalized onboarding sessions, a dedicated Customer Success Manager for enterprise customers, detailed documentation, a community Slack channel, and email/phone support. Get started.

Is there a free trial available?

Yes, Sedai offers a 30-day free trial so you can experience the platform's value firsthand without financial commitment. Start your trial.

What integrations does Sedai support?

Sedai integrates with monitoring tools (Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Azure Monitor), Kubernetes autoscalers (HPA/VPA, Karpenter), IaC & CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Terraform), ITSM (ServiceNow, Jira), notification tools (Slack, Microsoft Teams), and runbook automation platforms. See integrations.

Does Sedai require agents for integration?

No. Sedai connects securely to cloud accounts using IAM, eliminating the need for complex installations or additional agents.

Where can I find Sedai's technical documentation?

Sedai provides detailed technical documentation for setup, features, and usage at docs.sedai.io/get-started. Additional resources, including case studies and datasheets, are available at sedai.io/resources.

Is Sedai SOC 2 certified?

Yes. Sedai is SOC 2 certified, demonstrating adherence to stringent security requirements and industry standards for data protection and compliance. See security details.

Who are some of Sedai's customers?

Sedai is trusted by leading companies including Palo Alto Networks, HP, Experian, KnowBe4, Expedia, CapitalOne Bank, GSK, and Avis. These organizations rely on Sedai to optimize their cloud environments and improve operational efficiency. See customer stories.

Can you share specific case studies or success stories?

Yes. KnowBe4 achieved 50% cost savings and saved $1.2 million on AWS bills. Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million, reduced Kubernetes costs by 46%, and saved 7,500 engineering hours. Belcorp reduced AWS Lambda latency by 77%. Read KnowBe4 case study, Palo Alto Networks case study.

What business impact can customers expect from Sedai?

Customers can expect up to 50% cost savings, 75% latency reduction, 6X productivity gains, and 50% fewer failed customer interactions. Sedai delivers measurable ROI and improved operational efficiency. See solution briefs.

What feedback have customers given about Sedai's ease of use?

Customers highlight Sedai's quick setup (5–15 minutes), agentless integration, personalized onboarding, and extensive support resources. The 30-day free trial and plug-and-play implementation are especially valued. See feedback.

Who can benefit from Sedai?

Sedai is ideal for platform engineering, IT/cloud ops, technology leadership, SREs, and FinOps professionals in organizations with significant cloud operations. It serves industries like cybersecurity, IT, financial services, healthcare, travel, e-commerce, SaaS, and more. See case studies.

What industries are represented in Sedai's case studies?

Sedai's case studies span cybersecurity (Palo Alto Networks), IT (HP), financial services (Experian, CapitalOne Bank), security awareness training (KnowBe4), travel (Expedia), healthcare (GSK), car rental (Avis), retail/e-commerce (Belcorp), SaaS (Freshworks), and digital commerce (Campspot). See resources.

What problems does Sedai solve?

Sedai addresses cost inefficiencies, operational toil, performance and latency issues, lack of proactive issue resolution, complexity in multi-cloud/hybrid environments, and misaligned priorities between engineering and FinOps. See solution briefs.

What pain points do Sedai's customers typically face?

Customers often face fragmentation, repetitive toil, risk vs. speed trade-offs, autoscaler limits, ticket queues, config drift, hybrid complexity, capacity/cost surprises, outcome gaps, cloud spend pressure, tool sprawl, talent bandwidth issues, release risk, pager fatigue, brittle automation, and slow response to anomalies. Sedai addresses these through autonomous optimization and proactive management. See solution briefs.

How does Sedai differ from other cloud optimization platforms?

Sedai is the only platform patented for safe, autonomous optimization in production. It offers proactive issue resolution, application-aware intelligence, full-stack coverage, release intelligence, and plug-and-play implementation. Unlike competitors, Sedai never causes incidents and delivers continuous improvement without manual intervention. See differentiation.

What unique features put Sedai ahead of competitors?

Sedai's 100% autonomous optimization, proactive issue resolution, application-aware intelligence, full-stack coverage, release intelligence, and quick setup differentiate it from competitors. Sedai's patented safety-first approach ensures risk-free automation and continuous improvement. See solution briefs.

Why should a customer choose Sedai?

Customers should choose Sedai for its patented safety, autonomous optimization, proactive issue resolution, application-aware intelligence, full-stack coverage, proven results (up to 50% cost savings, 75% latency reduction), and ease of adoption. Sedai delivers measurable ROI and operational efficiency. See solution briefs.

What is Sedai's autonomous cloud optimization platform?

Sedai's platform autonomously optimizes cloud resources using machine learning, eliminating manual intervention. It covers compute, storage, and data across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes, reducing costs, improving performance, and enhancing reliability. See solution briefs.

What is Sedai for S3?

Sedai for S3 optimizes Amazon S3 costs by managing Intelligent-Tiering and Archive Access Tier selection, achieving up to 30% cost efficiency gain and 3X productivity gain by reducing manual effort in S3 management. See solution briefs.

What is Sedai's proactive issue resolution feature?

Sedai detects and resolves performance and availability issues before they impact users, reducing failed customer interactions by up to 50% and ensuring seamless operations. See solution briefs.

How does Sedai learn and evolve over time?

Sedai continuously learns from interactions and outcomes to improve optimization and decision models, ensuring ongoing improvement and adaptation to changing environments. See solution briefs.

How much does Sedai cost? How does pricing work?

Sedai uses a simple, volume-based pricing model, designed to ensure our customers achieve a positive ROI. For example, we charge 1 Sedai Billing Unit (SBU) for each vCPU that our platform manages. There are no overage penalties — if you exceed your monthly commitment, you simply pay the same rate for the extra usage. You can also adjust your commitment, as your needs change over time. Please book a demo to discuss our specific pricing options & discounts.

How does Sedai make sure that optimizations never cause availability issues or degrade performance?

Safe optimization is our secret sauce. When Sedai identifies a potential cost or performance improvement, our platform makes that optimization in gradual steps, while continuously validating the impact of the change on your environment. For example, if Sedai determines it can lower the memory limit of a container without impacting performance, it won’t make a big change all at once, from say 12 to 4 GB. Instead, Sedai will gradually lower the memory to achieve maximum cost savings, until the exact point where performance is impacted.

Which cloud providers does Sedai support? And what specific services can Sedai optimize?

Sedai supports the widest range of cloud services & on-prem workloads in our industry. This includes all the major cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We’re the experts at optimizing Kubernetes — think EKS, AKS, & GKE, as well as on-prem, self-managed clusters. But our platform is unique in going way beyond K8s. Sedai also optimizes storage, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads. Check out our integrations page for the full list.

What makes Sedai different from competitors? Why choose Sedai?

Only Sedai deeply understands how your applications behave, which is why our platform can optimize safely without causing performance or availability issues. Most tools either stop at recommendations or make risky changes based on surface-level metrics like CPU and memory utilization. Sedai goes deeper. Our patented ML models learn what your applications actually need by analyzing traffic patterns, dependencies, and golden signals like latency, errors, traffic, and saturation. That application-aware approach is what makes Sedai safe in production. To date, Sedai has performed more than 25 million optimizations with zero incidents.

Will I be able to control Sedai’s actions? What if we want to roll back a change?

Sedai offers three operating modes that give you full control. In Datapilot mode, Sedai provides read-only recommendations, for you to implement. In Copilot mode, Sedai lets your team approve optimizations with one click, which Sedai then safely executes. Once you trust the platform, you can turn on Autopilot mode for resources or environments that you select, which enables Sedai to make optimizations autonomously. Across the board, Sedai enables your team to instantly roll back a change, schedule maintenance windows, & pause optimizations for any reason.

How does Sedai integrate with our CI/CD pipeline? Does it lead to IaC drift?

Sedai is built to work alongside your existing CI/CD & GitOps workflows. Whenever Sedai optimizes a resource, it automatically opens a pull request in your Git repository reflecting the changes, keeping your IaC in sync across Terraform, Helm, & Kustomize. If your pipeline would otherwise overwrite Sedai's changes, our built-in overwrite protection (including a Kubernetes Admission Controller for GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux) ensures optimizations are preserved, without disrupting your workflow. The result: full auditability, no hidden drift, & no rip-and-replace required.

What is the difference between an “automated” system and a truly “autonomous” system, like Sedai?

This is the #1 most important question to ask when you’re evaluating any system that will make changes in production, without a human in the loop. Automated systems follow rigid instructions & scripts: “if X, then do Y.” Meanwhile, autonomous systems make decisions in real time to achieve big-picture goals, like upholding your SLO for latency when your website traffic spikes. Sedai is able to make these intelligent, contextual decisions, because our platform uses ML to understand the behavior of your apps. For a deeper answer, check out this in-depth blog.

How do you assess Sedai’s impact on application performance? What metrics does the platform look at?

Sedai uses a combination of metrics to paint a full picture of your application behavior. This includes the “golden signals” of latency, traffic, errors, & saturation — as well as seasonal trends. Our platform integrates with your existing APM tools, and then it applies patented machine learning to develop a thorough understanding of each app & microservice.

Do we have to install agents for Sedai to work?

Sedai offers both agent-based and agentless deployment options, dependent on your use case. For most cloud resources, Sedai connects securely via IAM permissions, without requiring an agent. However, for Kubernetes clusters, we recommend using our Smart Agent for deeper integration. You can also choose agentless setups for AKS, EKS, & GKE clusters, if you prefer. Onboarding is quick — typically just 15 minutes.

I have a technical question that isn’t answered here. Now what?

You can try asking our website chatbot. But the best way is to schedule a meeting with our team. This will be a 30-minute conversation with a technical expert, who can address any question about how Sedai works with your infrastructure and tools.

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Sedai lets you finally do something about your massive cloud & AI bills. With zero toil for your team. We use patented agentic AI to learn how your apps & agents behave. This allows Sedai to safely eliminate waste, in real time, all the time. You can start in Copilot — approving each optimization with one click. Then switch to Autopilot when you're ready to go fully autonomous.

Sedai eliminates every source of wasted spend, across the cloud & AI. It takes action in gradual steps, while performing constant safety checks.

Sedai finds the ideal settings for your apps & infrastructure, in real time, based on live data. It lets you deliver the best possible user experience.

Sedai detects & fixes availability issues — before they cause outages. It even predicts how your resource needs will change in the future.

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The world’s coolest companies love Sedai. Palo Alto Networks. Avis. Experian. HP. These customers trust our platform to manage their critical infrastructure — because we’ve never caused an issue. Never. You can hire an army of SREs. Or you can turn on Sedai.

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Yes, there are other tools that reduce cloud & AI costs. No, they’re not safe in production. Sedai holds eight U.S. patents on the ability to take autonomous action, without ever causing an incident. Zero. That’s a promise only we can make.

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