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Particularly in this dawning era of generative AI, cloud costs are at an all-time high. But that’s not merely because enterprises are using more compute — they’re not using it efficiently. In fact, just this year, enterprises are expected to waste $44.5 billion on unnecessary cloud spending.

This is an amplified problem for Akamai Technologies: The company has a large and complex cloud infrastructure on multiple clouds, not to mention numerous strict security requirements.

Inside the Cybersecurity-First AI Model

To resolve this, the cybersecurity and content delivery provider turned to the Kubernetes automation platform Cast AI, whose AI agents help optimize cost, security and speed across cloud environments.