Hybrid Multi-Cloud Cost Performance

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Managing Agentic AI Performance and Cloud Costs

Authors: Boris Zibitsker & Alex Lupersolsky (BEZNext)

The Challenge of Unpredictable AI Systems

AI agents are rapidly changing enterprise computing. However, unlike traditional applications, they do not follow a fixed path. Instead, an agent interprets intent, builds a plan, and calls different tools dynamically for every request. Consequently, this makes system behavior very hard to predict. As a result, cloud costs and processing delays can spike suddenly.

For instance, traditional monitoring tools only tell you what went wrong after it happens. Therefore, they cannot help you predict future budgets or find hidden bottlenecks. To solve this, our white paper offers a better approach. Specifically, it explains how observability automation acts as a foundation to control costs and improve speed

What You Will Learn Inside

1. Why AI Paths Shift

  • Probabilistic Routing: Learn how agents move between databases and tools based on probability.
  • Dynamic Execution: In addition, understand why request paths change wildly based on intermediate reasoning.

2. The 5-Step Control Loop

  • Observe: First, collect automated logs and traces across all architectural layers.
  • Model: Next, build hourly profiles to forecast future demand and performance.
  • Optimize: Furthermore, find the smallest, cheapest cloud setup that still meets your goals.
  • Act: Then, apply configuration changes and adjust auto-scaling rules automatically.
  • Learn: Finally, track your compliance goals and find the root causes of system errors.

3. Cloud Platform Differences

  • Snowflake: Look at virtual warehouse isolation. However, keep in mind that missing execution details require extra modeling.
  • Databricks: On the other hand, you can use MLflow tracing, model-serving metrics, and system tables.
  • Teradata VantageCloud: Meanwhile, get deep physical resource views to isolate system delays and data skews.

4. Cutting Cloud Waste

  • Idle System Losses: For example, stop losing 15% to 30% of your cloud credits on idle warehouses.
  • Bad Queries: Similarly, pinpoint the true drivers of cost, like inefficient aggregates and bad join conditions.