AWS re:Invent-style announcements come and go, but every so often one lands directly on the desk of the people who get paged at 2 AM. AWS DevOps Agent is one of those. It’s an AI-powered, always-on agent built to sit across two halves of the software delivery lifecycle that usually live in separate tools and […]
Introduction A change request starts as a single Jira ticket. Hours later it’s live in production, coded, reviewed, and documented, with almost none of the usual back-and-forth in between. That’s the shift AI agents are bringing to DevOps and platform engineering teams. An AI agent, in this context, is a software assistant that understands context […]
AWS DevOps Agent went generally available on March 31, 2026, and it changes what an on-call rotation looks like. The agent starts investigating the moment an alarm fires, correlates telemetry, code, and deployment data across your observability stack, and hands your engineer a root-cause hypothesis instead of a wall of dashboards. AWS reports that preview […]
Introduction This blog provides step-by-step instructions to implement AWS IAM Identity Center with Microsoft Entra ID as the identity source. Authentication is handled via SAML 2.0. User and group provisioning is handled via SCIM 2.0. IAM Identity Center is administered from a dedicated Identity account using Delegated Administration. Prerequisites AWS Organization active with All Features […]
Stop Grepping Logs at 3 AM: Why LLMs are Finally Making AIOps Useful Let me describe a situation that every DevOps engineer knows well. It’s 3:00 AM on a Thursday. You’re deep in REM sleep when PagerDuty starts vibrating on your nightstand with a Severity-1 alert. You drag yourself to your laptop. Slack is buzzing […]
A note before this starts: I used AI to help write this piece. The observations in it aren’t generated, though — they’re what our DevOps team has actually watched happen over the past while. I’m upfront about the tool because the argument here is that the shift itself is real and lived, even if the […]
Introduction Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) is Microsoft’s unified platform for building, deploying, and governing AI applications on Azure. It brings the model catalog, prompt orchestration, agent tooling, and evaluation/monitoring under one workspace structure instead of stitching together separate Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Machine Learning resources by hand. It matters because […]
Introduction Running Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS is easy, but running them in a cost-effective way is a different challenge. Many organizations start their Amazon EKS clusters with Managed Node Groups based on Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs). This is a reliable approach but often results in over-provisioning of infrastructure as worker nodes are kept running […]
Introduction Someone asked me last week whether Cost Explorer works like Resource Explorer, just for billing. It’s a reasonable guess. Same suffix, same console, both let you slice things by region. The guess is wrong in a way that costs people real time, so it’s worth pulling apart. One is a search index. The other […]
