How Cedana uses Northflank to deploy workloads onto Kubernetes with microVMs and secure runtimes

Cedana, a startup founded by Niranjan Ravichandra and Neel Master, focuses on building live migration and snapshot/restore infrastructure for GPU-heavy workloads, addressing challenges like high GPU failure rates in cloud and on-prem environments. Emerging from Y Combinator in 2023, the fully remote and engineering-centric company utilizes Northflank to manage infrastructure tasks, allowing Cedana to deploy secure and efficient customer environments with ease. This partnership facilitates Cedana's offering of live migration as a service and supports their efforts in confidential computing, reducing downtime and enhancing operational efficiency. The use of Northflank also aids in overcoming vendor lock-in and accelerates the development and deployment processes, allowing Cedana to focus on product innovation rather than infrastructure management. Cedana's approach, leveraging Northflank's flexibility and enterprise-ready features, has enabled them to maintain high standards of infrastructure resilience, reflecting their founders' backgrounds in aerospace and robotics, while also achieving SOC 2 compliance with minimal effort.