Hari Chandrasekhar

This blog dives into effective strategies for optimizing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) costs, focusing on resource right-sizing, autoscaling, and leveraging cost-saving pricing models like Spot VMs and Reserved Instances. It highlights best practices such as regular resource audits, tagging for cost tracking, and training teams on cost-efficient Kubernetes practices. The blog also introduces Sedai’s autonomous optimization platform, which automates resource adjustments and scaling to minimize costs while maintaining performance. Practical insights and actionable tips empower teams to manage AKS clusters efficiently, balance cost with reliability, and thrive in a cloud-driven environment.

Reducing AWS EC2 costs is essential for businesses aiming to manage cloud budgets effectively while maintaining performance and scalability. By employing strategies like selecting the right instance types, leveraging Reserved and Spot Instances, and implementing auto-scaling, organizations can significantly cut down on cloud expenses. Sedai’s autonomous optimization platform enhances these efforts by continuously analyzing workloads, right-sizing instances, and automating cost-saving actions in real time. From leveraging AWS-native tools like Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor to integrating advanced AI-driven optimizations, Sedai empowers businesses to achieve sustainable, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

This blog covers effective strategies for optimizing costs on Microsoft Azure, including using Azure’s native tools like Cost Management and Billing, Azure Advisor, and the Pricing Calculator for tracking and estimating expenses. It highlights the importance of right-sizing resources, utilizing Azure Reservations and Spot VMs, and setting up autoscaling to match demand. The post also emphasizes financial strategies like the Azure Hybrid Benefit and introduces Sedai’s AI-driven platform for continuous, autonomous cost optimization, ensuring businesses can maintain cost efficiency while maximizing performance.

This blog explores the strategy of running Kubernetes clusters on spot instances, a cost-saving approach that taps into unused cloud capacity. It covers key benefits of using spot instances in Kubernetes, best practices for autoscaling, and methods for managing instance interruptions to maintain workload stability. Additionally, it introduces Sedai's autonomous optimization platform, which enhances spot instance management through real-time adjustments and predictive analytics, minimizing manual intervention. Practical steps for node group configuration, pod scheduling, and balancing reliability with cost-efficiency are also included to help teams optimize Kubernetes clusters for cost-effective, resilient operations.

Optimizing costs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is crucial for businesses seeking to balance cloud spending with operational efficiency. This post explores essential strategies for achieving cost savings without compromising performance. Key practices include adjusting pod resource requests and limits, leveraging autoscaling for dynamic resource management, and utilizing Spot VMs for non-critical workloads to take advantage of significant cost reductions. Understanding GKE’s pricing models, such as committed use discounts (CUDs) and sustained use discounts (SUDs), is also essential for long-term cost management.

Early community perspectives on AWS EKS Auto Mode from Reddit, Medium, and LinkedIn, summarizing key points about cloud cost, productivity, security, and high availability benefits. Overview of compatibility and customization trade-offs to help evaluate if EKS Auto Mode suits your Kubernetes needs.

This blog explores the importance of selecting the correct instance types for rightsizing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Machines (VMs), emphasizing how businesses can optimize costs and performance. It covers various GCP instance categories, including general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, and accelerator-optimized instances, and explains the key factors to consider when rightsizing. Additionally, the blog highlights the role of GCP’s built-in tools like GCE Rightsizing Reports and the benefits of using Sedai’s AI-driven platform to automate and optimize resource allocation in real-time, ensuring efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure management.

Managing costs effectively in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is crucial for optimizing performance and ensuring scalability without overspending. This blog delves into the key components of AKS pricing, including control plane, node pools, data transfer, and storage costs. It also explores actionable strategies for cost optimization, such as leveraging auto-scaling, Spot VMs, rightsizing resources, and utilizing cost management tags. You’ll also learn about various approaches to resource optimization—manual, automated, and autonomous—to help businesses achieve efficiency while keeping costs under control.

This blog provides an in-depth look at the key components of AWS EKS pricing, including the control plane, worker nodes, data transfer, and storage costs. It breaks down how each element contributes to overall expenses and explores cost-effective strategies tailored for EKS environments. You’ll find insights on using various pricing models, including EC2, Fargate, and Outposts, and practical tips on leveraging Reserved and Spot Instances for savings. Additionally, the article discusses how businesses can adopt manual, automated, and autonomous approaches to cost management, with a special focus on optimizing resource allocation, auto-scaling, and workload management. Learn how intelligent, real-time solutions can help you streamline EKS operations and reduce costs without sacrificing performance.

Optimize Kubernetes performance and cost with Karpenter and Sedai. Learn how AI-driven insights enhance node provisioning, predictive scaling, and instance selection.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with autonomous systems for cloud cost & resource optimization. This guide explores strategies for maintaining DevOps best practices while leveraging AI-driven optimization in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring your IaC remains accurate and your cloud costs are minimized. Ci/CD tools mentioned include Jenkins, Argo CD, Circle CI and GitLab CD. IaC tools mentioned include Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Puppet and Helm. A case study showing how Gitlab IaC is integrated with Sedai's autonomous optimization capability at KnowBe4, a leading cybersecurity platform is included.

A technology company achieved a 25% cost saving across 1,400 Kubernetes services with Sedai's autonomous optimization technology by rightsizing Dev/Test environments. AI-powered autonomous optimization optimized Kubernetes requests and limits in Kubernetes workloads and optimized instance count and type. An AI driven approach was more effective than manual optimization, especially given the small spend on each individual service. Optimization is one key capability of Sedai's autonomous cloud management platform.

In the past few years, we have seen a huge increase in adoption for Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an excellent platform, which provides you with all the facilities to fine-tune your application and run it the way you need. We at Sedai, use Kubernetes for deploying our applications along with surveillance and some other managed services from AWS. One question we get a lot is “Is there a need for another system or an autonomous system to manage Kubernetes?” Kubernetes is in fact a declarative system, an excellent one at which you can specify the needs of running your application, and Kubernetes will take care of the rest.