AWS DevOps Agent: Your Autonomous On-Call Engineer
What if your on-call engineer never slept? AWS DevOps Agent, announced at re:Invent 2025, is an autonomous AI that monitors your infrastructure, investigates incidents, and can even implement fixes—all without human intervention.
DevOps Agent Capabilities
| Function | What It Does |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | Watches CloudWatch, analyzes metrics patterns |
| Detection | Identifies anomalies before they become outages |
| Investigation | Correlates logs, traces, metrics across services |
| Root Cause | Identifies the source of the problem |
| Remediation | Suggests or implements fixes |
Integration Points
DevOps Agent connects to your existing tools:
- AWS: CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, EventBridge
- Code: GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
- Tickets: ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty
- Communication: Slack, Teams
Example: Automated Incident Response
# Scenario: API latency spike
# 1. Agent detects anomaly
[DevOps Agent] API Gateway latency increased 300% in last 5 minutes
# 2. Automatic investigation
[DevOps Agent] Correlating with:
- CloudWatch metrics
- Lambda logs
- DynamoDB metrics
- Recent deployments
# 3. Root cause identified
[DevOps Agent] Root cause: DynamoDB table "orders" is throttling.
- Consumed capacity: 5000 WCU
- Provisioned: 1000 WCU
- Recent code change added batch writes
# 4. Remediation options
[DevOps Agent] Recommended actions:
1. Enable on-demand capacity (immediate)
2. Increase provisioned capacity to 6000 WCU
3. Roll back commit abc123 (batch write change)
# 5. With approval, agent implements fix
[DevOps Agent] Enabled on-demand capacity. Latency returning to normal.
Setting Up DevOps Agent
# Enable DevOps Agent via CloudFormation
Resources:
DevOpsAgent:
Type: AWS::Bedrock::DevOpsAgent
Properties:
Name: production-agent
MonitoredResources:
- !Ref ProductionVPC
Integrations:
GitHub:
RepositoryArn: arn:aws:codeconnections:...
Slack:
WorkspaceId: T12345678
PagerDuty:
IntegrationKey: !Ref PagerDutySecret
AutoRemediation:
Enabled: true
RequireApproval: true # Human approves before changes
The Future of Operations
DevOps Agent represents a shift from reactive to proactive operations. Instead of getting paged at 3 AM, the agent handles routine incidents while you sleep.
