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Aby Jacob

Senior Director Engineering

Aby Jacob is Sedai's Senior Director of Engineering and Country Head for India. He has 17+ years of experience in IT industry in software product design, development, customization and implementation. He has architected 7 products & platforms and holds 2 US patents.

Understanding the Difference between SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs

This article explores the critical roles of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) in enhancing business performance and customer satisfaction. It emphasizes best practices for implementation and highlights how Sedai's innovative solutions optimize service level management through automation and real-time adjustments.
Published on
March 21, 2025

Rightsizing for Azure Virtual Machines

This article explores the importance of rightsizing Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) to optimize both cost-efficiency and performance. It covers various Azure VM instance types and provides best practices for determining the right size based on specific workloads. Key tools like Azure Advisor and Azure Monitor are highlighted for continuous monitoring and optimization, while Sedai's AI-driven platform is recommended for autonomous VM rightsizing. The blog also discusses common challenges in manual rightsizing, the benefits of vertical and horizontal scaling, and the need for continuous optimization to meet evolving business demands.
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March 21, 2025

Strategies for AWS Lambda Cost Optimization

This article delves into effective strategies for optimizing AWS Lambda costs, focusing on memory allocation, request management, and leveraging ARM-based architectures. It outlines cost-saving techniques, including the benefits of provisioned concurrency and batching requests, to reduce invocation frequency. Additionally, the article highlights the role of Sedai’s autonomous optimization platform, which adjusts configurations in real-time to align Lambda functions with both performance targets and budgetary constraints, ensuring efficient cost management in serverless operations.
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March 21, 2025

How to Use Scheduled Shutdowns in Amazon EKS to Lower Costs

This blog explores how scheduled shutdowns in Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) can significantly reduce infrastructure costs by automating resource management. It covers the benefits of scaling down non-critical resources during off-peak hours, the challenges involved in effective scheduling, and tools like KEDA for event-driven autoscaling. The article also provides a practical example of implementing scheduled scaling with KEDA, emphasizing how businesses can optimize resource usage and cut costs without sacrificing performance. Sedai’s AI-powered platform is highlighted as a solution to further streamline these processes.
Published on
March 21, 2025

Understanding AWS Auto Scaling and its Features

AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusts cloud resources to optimize performance and costs. Integrated with Sedai, businesses benefit from AI-powered resource management, automated scaling, and real-time cost optimization. This combination helps reduce over-provisioning and ensures peak cloud infrastructure performance.
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March 21, 2025

Comparing AWS Lambda, EKS, ECS and EC2: Factors to Consider in System Design and Cost Management

Optimizing cloud costs and performance is a challenge for many enterprises, with AWS services like Lambda, EKS, ECS, and EC2 offering different capabilities. This guide compares these services based on scalability, cost, ease of management, and performance to help you choose the right fit for your cloud applications. Whether you need a serverless solution, container orchestration, or full infrastructure control, understanding the trade-offs can streamline operations.
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March 21, 2025

Detecting Unused and Orphaned Resources in Kubernetes Cluster

Optimize your Kubernetes clusters with Sedai! Discover how our autonomous platform detects orphaned resources, improves performance, and reduces costs. Sedai fine-tunes workload configurations, manages resources efficiently, and ensures scalability.
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March 21, 2025

Optimizing Workload Rightsizing in Amazon EKS for Efficient Resource Utilization

This post explores the importance of workload rightsizing in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for enhancing cost efficiency and application performance. It covers strategies for configuring CPU and memory requests, utilizing autoscalers like Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), and leveraging observability tools for continuous monitoring. The role of Sedai's AI-driven platform is emphasized as a key solution for automating rightsizing processes, ultimately helping organizations optimize resource utilization and adapt to changing workload demands effectively.
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March 21, 2025

Using Scheduled Shutdowns to Optimize Amazon ECS Development Costs

Keeping Amazon ECS development & testing environments workloads running when they're not actively used can lead to considerable expenses for teams.Implementing scheduled shutdowns of Amazon ECS cloud resources when not in use can lead to cloud cost savings with relatively little implementation effort.Four ways to achieve shutdowns for Amazon ECS include (1) manual shutdowns, (2) Lambda functions, (3) Cloudwatch templates and (4) schedules inside a platform such as Sedai.
Published on
April 22, 2024

Virtual Machines in the Autonomous Era

Explore the relevance of VM-based applications in the autonomous era
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March 5, 2025