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AWS launched DevOps Agent at re:Invent 2025 as an "autonomous on-call engineer." But before you cancel your PagerDuty subscription, we separate marketing from mechanics.
NEWS THIS EPISODE:• KubeCon Europe 2026: March 23-26 in Amsterdam, 224 sessions across 5 tracks• Platform Engineering 2026 Predictions: Agentic infrastructure becomes standard
In this deep-dive episode, we cover:
WHAT IT PROMISES:• Always-on AI that investigates incidents 24/7• Automatic root cause analysis across logs, metrics, traces, and deployments• Mitigation plan generation with step-by-step remediation• Integration with CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk
WHAT IT ACTUALLY DELIVERS:• Agent Spaces architecture for scoped permissions and isolated environments• Automatic topology building that discovered 42 resources in demo• Accurate diagnosis of EKS imagePullBackError in real testing• MTTR improvement from 45 to 18 minutes when properly configured
THE CRITICAL LIMITATIONS:• Cannot execute fixes - humans must approve and apply every action• >40 minute gaps between events break correlation• Preview limits: 20 incident hours/month, US-East-1 only• No SOC 2/ISO 27001 compliance yet• GA pricing unknown - the "$600K question"
EVALUATION FRAMEWORK:We provide a 5-question framework to decide if this fits your team, plus ideal vs wait-and-see scenarios based on your cloud footprint and incident volume.
Resources and full transcript: https://platformengineering.playbook.org/podcasts/00080-aws-devops-agent-autonomous-operations
