AWS DevOps Agent: From Setup to First Real Investigation (And the Gotchas in Between)

When an alert fires at 2am, the first 15 minutes aren't spent fixing anything. They're spent gathering context — opening CloudWatch, checking New Relic, scanning recent deploys, pulling up the runbook. By the time you actually understand what's happening, you've burned the fastest part of your response window. AWS DevOps Agent is designed to do that first pass for you. It's an agentic AI system that investigates incidents autonomously — querying your telemetry, correlating deploy events, and pos