# Amazon S3

Sedai autonomously shifts S3 data into Intelligent-Tiering by access pattern, then recommends Archive moves for persistently cold data.

## Stop Paying S3 Standard Rates for Cold Data

Most teams store everything in S3 Standard by default and never revisit it. Sedai analyzes access patterns across your buckets and autonomously moves data to the right storage class — continuously.

## S3 Costs Accumulate Quietly Because Nothing Forces You to Look at Them.

S3 has no performance degradation to alert on. Data lands in Standard and stays there. Lifecycle policies are complex enough to deprioritize. Incomplete multipart uploads accumulate invisibly. The result is spend that grows consistently and rarely surfaces as a priority.

### Lifecycle policy complexity is a real reason teams don't implement them.

Moving data to Infrequent Access, Glacier, or Intelligent-Tiering requires understanding access patterns and evaluating cost crossover points. It's ongoing maintenance that consistently loses to higher-visibility work.

### Intelligent-Tiering is valuable but not universally appropriate.

The per-object monitoring charge means it only pencils out above certain object size and access frequency thresholds. Applying it blindly — or not applying it when it would help — both cost money.

### Unmanaged resources add to the bill in ways that never surface without dedicated tooling.

Incomplete multipart uploads, stale object versions, and objects left in Standard past their useful access window are predictable outputs of normal S3 usage — and they accumulate until something specifically audits for them.

## How We Help

### Autonomous Intelligent-Tiering

Sedai analyzes access patterns and performs a cost-benefit analysis before moving eligible objects to Intelligent-Tiering — so data shifts between tiers automatically based on real usage.

### Archive Tier Recommendations

For persistently cold data, Sedai recommends transition to Archive or Deep Archive tiers — surfacing the savings opportunity without acting unilaterally on long-term storage.

### Cost & Usage Visibility

Sedai surfaces S3 cost breakdowns and hidden waste — including incomplete multipart uploads — so savings opportunities that would otherwise go unnoticed don't.

## Your Coldest Data Shouldn't Cost Standard Rates.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How does Sedai decide whether Intelligent-Tiering is worth it for a given bucket?

Intelligent-Tiering has its own per-object monitoring cost, which means it isn't always cost-justified for small objects or buckets with unpredictable access patterns. Sedai performs a cost-benefit analysis before making any transition, only moving objects where the savings outweigh the overhead.

### Does Sedai move objects to Archive tiers automatically?

No. Transitions to Archive Access and Deep Archive are surfaced as recommendations rather than autonomous actions. These tiers introduce retrieval latency that may not be acceptable for all workloads, so Sedai leaves that decision with your team.

### What happens to data availability when objects move to Intelligent-Tiering?

Intelligent-Tiering maintains the same availability and durability as S3 Standard. Objects in the frequent access tier are immediately available; objects that have transitioned to infrequent access are still accessible without retrieval fees, just with slightly different performance characteristics.

### How does Sedai handle incomplete multipart uploads?

Sedai identifies incomplete multipart uploads that are consuming storage without serving any purpose and surfaces them as cleanup candidates. As with decommissioning recommendations elsewhere, cleanup actions require explicit approval.

### Does Sedai work across multiple S3 buckets and AWS accounts?

Yes. Sedai analyzes and optimizes S3 storage across all buckets in your environment, with support for multi-account AWS deployments.