Part 1: Intent vs State — How AWS DevOps Agent Closes the Gap Between What Your System Is and What You Decided It Should

A few weeks ago I was at an AWS roundtable in Auckland. A dozen heads of platform around one table, every one of them shipping AI agents into production, every one of them describing the same gap. Their agents could read AWS docs. They could call the AWS API. They could write Terraform. They could even, on a good day, propose a fix for a real incident. What none of them could do: tell on-call whether the API exposure on the billing service is a regression — or a 30-day risk acceptance the team s