SkyPilot and Cast AI address GPU scarcity from opposite ends, with SkyPilot running workloads across 20+ clouds and selecting the cheapest available GPU while Cast AI's OMNI Compute extends existing E…
Kubernetes configuration drift — the gap between declared state in Git or Helm and actual cluster state — inflates autoscaler baselines, with clusters running at 69% CPU overprovisioning on average ac…
Cast AI's 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report found average GPU utilization across its fleet of 23,000 production clusters is just 5%, with AKS at 2%, EKS at 5%, and GKE at 6%, while the best…
Cast AI's 2026 Kubernetes Optimization Report, analyzing tens of thousands of production clusters from January 2025 through April 2026, recorded average GPU compute utilization of 5% before any optimi…
Cast AI's 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, covering more than 23,000 clusters, found average CPU utilization at 8% with 69% of provisioned CPU overprovisioned, up from a 40% overprovision…
Gartner formalized AI SRE as an analyst category in January 2026 and projects that 85% of enterprises will use AI SRE tooling by 2029, up from less than 5% today, according to its Market Guide for AI …
A four-level model of Kubernetes operations distinguishes automated, autonomous, and agentic tooling, with most Kubernetes tooling marketed as autonomous actually operating at Level 1, where a human w…
Automated rightsizing cut OOM kills from an average of 40 to 50 per reporting window, with spikes above 80, to near zero within days of being enabled in one representative cluster, while provisioned C…
AKS clusters average just 8% CPU utilization, 20% memory utilization, and 2% GPU utilization, the lowest of any major cloud provider, according to Cast AI's 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Repor…
GKE clusters average just 8% CPU and 6% GPU utilization, while EKS clusters average 5% GPU and AKS clusters average 2% GPU, according to the Cast AI 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, indic…
Average CPU utilization across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters has fallen to 8% in 2026 from 10% in 2025, with 69% of provisioned CPU now completely unused, up from 40% year-over-year…
The average production Kubernetes cluster runs at just 8% CPU utilization, according to the Cast AI 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, even as 88% of organizations report year-over-year inc…
Cast AI's workload-level rightsizing engine, PrecisionPack, reduces provisioned CPU footprint by approximately 50%, according to Cast AI's 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report. PrecisionPack, …
Cast AI creates low technical lock-in but moderate operational lock-in, according to a Cast AI analysis of its own Kubernetes node-provisioning product. The company states that Cast AI provisions stan…
CAST AI's guide to Karpenter best practices for production clusters on Amazon EKS details 10 configuration tips, including running the controller on dedicated nodes, using mutually exclusive NodePools…
A technical guide from Cast AI explains that quantization, the process of compressing LLM weights to lower-precision data types, is central to balancing throughput, memory, and inference costs, and cl…
Kubernetes requests and limits determine pod scheduling and runtime resource enforcement, but the Cast AI 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report finds average CPU utilization across production c…
Cast AI benchmark testing shows that continuous batching at batch size 8 reduces Llama 3.1 70B inference cost on a single H100 from approximately $0.60-$0.80 per million tokens to $0.15-$0.25 per mill…
Teams running Spot-heavy Kubernetes configurations save 77% on compute on average, compared to 59% for mixed fleets, according to the 2025 Cast AI Kubernetes Cost Benchmark. AWS gives a 2-minute inter…
AWS launched EKS Auto Mode at re:Invent 2024 (GA: December 1, 2024), a cluster configuration mode that runs Karpenter as a fully managed, off-cluster service, automating node provisioning, AMI patchin…