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Meet Sed: Sedai's New AI Assistant Brings Conversation (and Action) to Cloud Optimization
Introducing Sed and Sedai's MCP integration: ask questions, take action, and extend it into your own agents.
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High Availability for Cloud-Based Applications: Concepts & Best Practices
Learn the basic concepts of high availability for cloud-based applications, including redundancy, monitoring, failover strategies, and best practices to minimize downtime and boost performance.
FinOps & Engineering Both Want to Lower BigQuery Costs. So Why Hasn't Anyone?
If your team is using BigQuery at scale, there's a good chance your FinOps and engineering teams are both trying to lower the bill, but neither are succeeding. This is why.
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.
Why Your Well-Governed Infrastructure is Still Wasting 30% of Your Cloud Budget (And How We’re Working with Spectro Cloud to Fix It)
Sedai and Spectro Cloud are the ultimate combination for Kubernetes optimization and management.
How Engineers Save on AWS EMR Costs: 2026 Guide
See what drives AWS EMR costs and apply key strategies like right-sizing, spot nodes and auto-scaling to slash your cluster spend.
Best Practices for Tagging AWS Resources
Learn AWS tagging best practices to improve cost allocation, governance, & automation. Build a tagging strategy that supports accurate optimization & scaling decisions.
The Case Against LLMs in Your CI/CD Pipeline
AI agents are replacing traditional CI/CD pipelines, but LLMs don't belong in production decision-making. Here's what safe agentic CI/CD actually requires.
SaaS vs On-Premise Explained
SaaS vs on-prem explained for modern teams. Compare control, cost, security, customization, and the hidden operational responsibility that remains in both models.
The FinOps Maturity Model: What Actually Stalls Teams at Each Stage
Explore the FinOps maturity model through Crawl, Walk, & Run stages, plus the blockers, metrics, & operating model changes that help teams mature safely.