Microsoft Cost Management

Sedai is an autonomous cloud management platform powered by AI/ML delivering continuous optimization for cloud operations teams to maximize cloud cost savings, performance and availability at scale. Sedai enables teams to shift from static rules and threshold-based automation to modern ML-based autonomous operations. Using Sedai, organizations can reduce cloud cost by up to 50%, improve performance by up to 75%, reduce failed customer interactions (FCIs) by 75% and multiply SRE productivity by up to 6X for their modern applications. Sedai can perform work equivalent to a team of cloud engineers working behind the scenes to optimize resources and remediate issues, so organizations can focus on innovation.

IBM Targetprocess (formerly Apptio Cloudability). Establish team budgets and accurately forecast and track cloud spend. Correlate cloud spend to business value to make cloud investment decisions with confidence. Stay informed of costs and act on anomalies and rightsizing opportunities by team, service, or project. Accurately allocate all costs, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business. Leverage rightsizing capabilities across major cloud services to reduce operating expenses and fund future investments. Enable team ownership of cloud spend and correlate this spend to business value for more effective strategic decision-making. Develop a comprehensive cloud optimization strategy geared for immediate cost savings. Included are a set of optimization recommendations aligned with the business while starting to enable accountability across the org.