Sedai's new savings and impact dashboards bring an elevated level of sophistication to how cloud value is calculated and communicated, with accuracy and transparency that no other optimization platform comes close to matching.
Cloud optimization tools all claim to save you money. Most back that up with a single number, calculated against list price, assuming 24/7 runtime, ignoring your negotiated discounts. It looks impressive on a dashboard. It just doesn't hold up in a FinOps review.
Sedai has always approached optimization with nuance and precision, and our new savings and impact dashboards extend that same rigor to how we report the benefits we deliver, giving FinOps teams numbers they can stand behind with confidence.
More Accurate Than the Industry Standard, by Design
Most optimization tools make three simplifying assumptions when calculating savings: list price, 24/7 runtime, and static scale. These assumptions inflate the numbers and make them impossible to reconcile against an actual cloud bill.
Sedai's new calculation engine rejects this oversimplification. Sedai pulls actual discount data directly from your Cost and Usage Report (CUR), precisely measures the operation hours for every resource, and tracks every scaling action. The result is a savings figure that may be more conservative than what other tools show, but which delivers a superior level of credibility and convenience for your finance team when they’re reconciling savings against their source-of-truth FinOps tools.
That precision compounds over time. As Sedai continues to optimize, the numbers build — and every dollar shown can be defended, line by line, in front of the most skeptical stakeholder.
Realized and Projected: Clarity at Every Time Horizon
The new dashboards don’t just tell you what Sedai has already accomplished; it also features the savings you’re on track to deliver next. Toggle between Realized and Projected views to flip between historical savings and forward forecasts.
Powerful Aggregation & Filters
Need to compare your optimization progress across regions? Across teams? Across managed services? Our new dashboards make this simple: select the dimension you care about, and then choose a stacked total area chart, or plot them as competing series to see the relative progress.
Cost Avoidance: The Value Other Tools Don’t Show You
Direct cost savings — swapping one resource type for another, seeing the line item drop immediately — is the easy part to communicate. But a significant share of the value Sedai delivers doesn't show up that way. When Sedai right-sizes a workload, it frees up capacity on your nodes, letting you run more on your existing infrastructure without provisioning more. One large financial institution that uses Sedai reported that they were able to triple the number of workloads in their dev environment without increasing their spend, purely due to the cost avoidance actions that Sedai executed.
Cost avoidance is the money you didn’t have to spend. The new dashboards give that value its own dedicated view, so the full picture is always visible alongside direct savings.
Resource Usage: The “How” Behind the Numbers
Savings figures are outputs. The resource usage reductions that drive them are the inputs, and the new dashboards make those visible in a dedicated Resource Usage screen. CPU hours, memory, and storage savings are broken down per resource, with the same Observed/Projected toggle, so any stakeholder can trace a dollar amount back to the specific infrastructure changes that generated it.
This is the layer that answers the deeper FinOps question: not just how much did we save, but what exactly changed to produce that number.
Latency Reduction: Performance, Quantified
Cost is only part of what Sedai optimizes. The new dashboards add a Latency Reduction screen that puts a concrete number on the performance improvements Sedai delivers alongside cost savings, making visible a dimension of value that no other optimization platform surfaces in its reporting.
A Reporting Experience Built for Champions
The people using these dashboards aren't just curious; they're building a case to drive more adoption of Sedai within their organization to share with their executives and their finance teams. They need a Savings view that makes that job easier, not harder, and Sedai’s new Savings & Impact dashboards were built with this process in mind.
🔍 Granular filtering
Slice savings by account, cluster, region, resource and more. Surface exactly what’s needed for any audience.
📈 Trend visualizations
Stacked area and line charts show how savings accumulate over time, not just where they stand today.
🔄 Realized vs. Projected toggle
Instantly switch between what's been captured and what's expected — clearly labeled, never conflated.
Available now, with more to come
The new savings and impact dashboards are generally available today for all Sedai customers. They represent a new foundation for how Sedai communicates value — one we'll continue to build on as the platform evolves.
