Frequently Asked Questions

Product Overview & AWS Optimization

What is Sedai's AWS Optimization Platform?

Sedai's AWS Optimization Platform is an autonomous solution that continuously tunes AWS environments—including EKS, ECS, EC2/Fargate, and Lambda—to reduce costs and improve performance without risking production stability. It learns real workload behavior, makes SLO-aware and reversible changes, and adapts as your AWS environment evolves. Learn more.

Which AWS services does Sedai support for optimization?

Sedai supports optimization for Amazon EKS, ECS, EC2, Fargate, and Lambda. The platform tunes these services in real time to match demand, eliminate overprovisioning, and keep applications responsive. See supported AWS technologies.

How does Sedai ensure safe optimization in AWS environments?

Sedai uses a safe autonomy approach, making gradual, reversible changes with continuous safety checks. It learns your application's real behavior and keeps every change SLO-aware, minimizing the risk of outages or production issues. Read more about safe optimization.

What makes Sedai different from other AWS optimization tools?

Sedai is 100% autonomous, executing optimizations in real time without manual intervention. Unlike tools that only provide recommendations, Sedai acts directly in production, adapts to evolving workloads, and integrates with governance and compliance workflows. See competitive comparisons.

How does Sedai optimize AWS costs and performance?

Sedai uses AI/ML to analyze application and infrastructure data, then tunes resources to reduce overprovisioning and improve responsiveness. It balances cost and performance, ensuring you only pay for what you need while maintaining SLOs. Learn more.

What is application-aware intelligence in Sedai?

Application-aware intelligence means Sedai understands your application's behavior, not just infrastructure metrics like CPU or memory. This enables smarter, context-driven optimizations that align with your business goals. Read about application-aware intelligence.

How does Sedai handle governance and compliance for AWS changes?

Sedai integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ITSM, and security workflows. Every change to production is tracked, governed, and compliant, supporting enterprise-grade governance requirements. Learn about governance.

What is outcome-driven optimization in Sedai?

Outcome-driven optimization lets you define what success means for your AWS workloads, such as meeting specific SLOs. Sedai then optimizes resources to achieve those outcomes, not just arbitrary infrastructure targets. Learn more.

Does Sedai support full-stack optimization for AWS?

Yes, Sedai provides one platform for optimizing compute, storage, data, and AI workloads across your AWS environment, eliminating the need for multiple point solutions. See full-stack coverage.

What are the main benefits of using Sedai for AWS optimization?

Sedai delivers up to 50% cloud savings, 75% performance gains, and 70% reduction in failed customer interactions, all while ensuring safe, autonomous, and compliant operations. See benefits.

Features & Capabilities

What features does Sedai offer for AWS optimization?

Sedai offers autonomous optimization, proactive issue resolution, release intelligence, smart SLOs, comprehensive integrations, cloud cost optimization, and productivity enhancements for AWS environments. See all features.

Does Sedai support integration with AWS monitoring tools?

Yes, Sedai integrates with AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring tools like Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, and Prometheus to collect data for optimization. See all integrations.

Can Sedai optimize AWS Lambda workloads?

Yes, Sedai optimizes AWS Lambda by reducing latency, improving cold start performance, and tuning concurrency settings using machine learning. Customers like Belcorp and Campspot have seen significant latency reductions. Read Belcorp's story.

What is Sedai's Smart SLOs feature?

Smart SLOs automatically set and monitor Service Level Objectives based on past performance, alerting you to breaches and helping maintain reliability and latency targets. Learn about Smart SLOs.

How does Sedai's Release Intelligence work?

Release Intelligence tracks the impact of new releases on latency, cost, and errors using scorecards, helping you ensure quality and reduce deployment errors. Learn about Release Intelligence.

What integrations does Sedai offer for AWS users?

Sedai integrates with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, notification providers (Slack, Teams, Webhook, Email), ITSMs (BMC, Jira, ServiceNow), monitoring tools, IaC/CI/CD tools, and more. See the full list.

Does Sedai support Kubernetes optimization on AWS?

Yes, Sedai supports Kubernetes optimization on AWS (EKS) and integrates with autoscalers like Karpenter. Learn more about Kubernetes optimization.

How does Sedai balance cost and performance for AWS workloads?

Sedai uses machine learning to analyze monitoring data and find configurations that deliver performance improvements while setting a cost cap on additional resources. Balance performance and cost for your apps.

Business Impact & Customer Proof

What business impact can I expect from using Sedai for AWS optimization?

Customers have achieved up to 50% cloud savings (KnowBe4), $3.5M in cost reduction (Palo Alto Networks), 77% latency reduction (Belcorp), and 34% latency reduction (Campspot). Sedai also delivers a 762% ROI, 3-month payback, and time to first value in 14 days. See solution briefs.

Can you share specific AWS customer success stories?

Yes. KnowBe4 achieved 50% cost savings in production, Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5M and reduced Kubernetes costs by 46%, Belcorp reduced AWS Lambda latency by 77%, and Campspot achieved a 34% reduction. See all customer stories.

Who are some of Sedai's AWS customers?

Notable AWS customers include Palo Alto Networks, HP, Experian, KnowBe4, Capital One, Flex, Guidewire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Freshworks. See customer logos and stories.

What industries use Sedai for AWS optimization?

Sedai's AWS optimization is used in cybersecurity, IT, information services, financial services, SaaS, supply chain, insurance software, scientific research, e-commerce, and online travel. See industry case studies.

What pain points does Sedai solve for AWS users?

Sedai addresses high cloud costs, application latency, availability issues, manual toil, and release quality challenges for AWS users. Customers report significant improvements in cost, performance, and operational efficiency. See KnowBe4's story.

What roles and companies benefit most from Sedai's AWS optimization?

Site Reliability Engineers, Platform Engineers, DevOps teams, Engineering Leaders, CTOs, and Architects in organizations of all sizes benefit from Sedai's AWS optimization. It's especially valuable for teams managing cloud operations in regulated or high-scale industries. See target audience.

Implementation & Ease of Use

How long does it take to implement Sedai for AWS optimization?

Sedai's plug-and-play implementation takes just 5 minutes for general setup and 15 minutes for specific use cases like AWS Lambda. This ensures minimal disruption and rapid time to value. See setup details.

How easy is it to get started with Sedai on AWS?

Getting started is straightforward: sign up, connect your AWS and monitoring accounts, and Sedai begins analyzing and optimizing. Live onboarding support, comprehensive documentation, and a Slack community are available for assistance. See documentation.

What resources are available for onboarding and support?

Sedai provides live onboarding assistance, detailed guides, a Slack community, and personalized onboarding calls to ensure a smooth start. Book an onboarding call.

Is technical documentation available for AWS users?

Yes, Sedai offers extensive technical documentation, including a Getting Started Guide and Dataflow Optimization docs, to help AWS users configure and utilize the platform effectively. Access documentation.

What feedback have AWS customers given about Sedai's ease of use?

Customers highlight Sedai's quick setup (5–15 minutes), live onboarding support, comprehensive documentation, and active Slack community as key factors making the platform easy to adopt and use. See customer feedback.

Security, Compliance & Governance

Is Sedai SOC 2 certified for AWS optimization?

Yes, Sedai is SOC 2 certified, demonstrating adherence to stringent security and compliance standards for AWS and other cloud environments. See security details.

How does Sedai ensure compliance for AWS changes?

Sedai tracks, governs, and documents every change to production, integrating with ITSM and security workflows to ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory requirements. Learn more about compliance.

Does Sedai support integration with AWS Partner Network and FinOps Foundation?

Yes, Sedai is an AWS Partner and a member of the FinOps Foundation, reflecting its commitment to best practices in cloud optimization and financial operations. See partnerships.

Competition & Comparison

How does Sedai compare to other AWS optimization platforms like StormForge, nOps, or Kubecost?

Sedai is fully autonomous, executing optimizations in real time, while StormForge and nOps provide recommendations. Kubecost focuses on cost allocation and visibility, not autonomous action. Sedai also offers proactive issue resolution, release intelligence, and comprehensive platform coverage. See detailed comparisons.

Why choose Sedai over traditional AWS optimization tools?

Sedai's autonomous execution, proactive issue resolution, release intelligence, and support for both application and infrastructure layers set it apart from traditional tools that require manual intervention or focus only on monitoring. See why customers choose Sedai.

What are Sedai's unique features compared to competitors?

Sedai offers 100% autonomous optimization, proactive issue resolution, release intelligence, smart SLOs, AI-driven insights, and real-time execution—features not commonly found together in other AWS optimization platforms. See feature comparisons.

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The Only Safe Way To Optimize AWS

Your AWS bill is too high. But optimization is risky. Sedai autonomously cuts waste & tunes performance. All without breaking prod.

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Supported Technology for AWS

Sedai tunes EKS, ECS, EC2/Fargate, & Lambda in real time to match demand. Eliminate overprovisioning while keeping services responsive.

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AWS Runs Better on Sedai

Sedai doesn’t risk your prod when it optimizes AWS. It learns your real workload behavior so every change stays SLO-aware & reversible. Get continuous optimization that adapts as your AWS environments evolve. All without manual tuning.

Sedai understands application behavior, not just CPU or memory metrics.

Sedai lets you define what success means to you, based on your SLOs.

Sedai makes gradual changes with continuous safety checks — rather than large, risky changes that can cause outages.

Sedai is one optimization platform for compute, storage, data, & AI workloads.

Our platform integrates with IaC, ITSM, & security workflows — so every change to prod is tracked, governed, & compliant.

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