Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the immediate availability of two potentially transformative tools: the AWS DevOps Agent and the AWS Security Agent.
They’re designed to act as “always-on” teammates that can be paired with DevOps and security teams, so that humans can focus less on reactive problem solving and more on proactive optimization, the company said. Both of the new agents have a security focus.
The AWS DevOps Agent is an intelligent operations assistant that’s programmed to investigate, resolve and hopefully also prevent incidents from crippling applications running in cloud and on-premises environments. Whereas traditional application monitoring tools are only able to alert humans to problems that occur, the DevOps Agent is designed to act more like an experienced site reliability engineer, said AWS Senior Specialist Solutions Architect Madhu Balaji.
The DevOp Agent’s primary role is to just sit there monitoring applications in deployment 24/7,…
