AWS launches agent to assess cloud systems and recommend changes
AWS has introduced the Well-Architected Agent, which reviews customers’ cloud environments and recommends changes based on its best-practice framework. The tool aims to improve cost, security, performance and resilience, potentially reducing the need for some human consultancy while raising questions about how much trust IT teams should place in automated advice.
It assesses environments across more than 65 AWS services and can provide resource-level findings, estimated cost impacts, remediation steps and Infrastructure as Code changes. Customers can apply suggestions manually, including through the command line, reflecting the cautious approach many IT professionals take to AIOps recommendations. The agent is available in three US regions to customers with an AWS support plan, and can assess workloads in any AWS commercial region.
- AWS launched an agent that reviews cloud setups against its best-practice framework.
- It covers more than 65 services and can estimate savings and suggest fixes.
- Customers can review and apply recommendations manually.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a major provider of cloud computing services, meaning it rents computer resources and infrastructure to businesses over the internet rather than those businesses building and maintaining their own data centres. Organisations of all sizes rely on AWS to run their applications and store data.
AWS has released an automated tool called the Well-Architected Agent that examines how customers have set up their cloud systems and suggests improvements based on AWS's recommended practices. The agent can identify ways to reduce costs, improve security, boost performance and make systems more reliable, providing specific steps customers can take to implement its suggestions.
Traditionally, businesses have hired expensive consultants to review and optimise their cloud setups, so automated tools like this could potentially reduce those costs. However, the introduction of artificial intelligence into critical IT decisions raises questions about whether organisations should fully trust automated recommendations for their infrastructure, and many IT teams prefer to carefully review and manually approve any changes before applying them.
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Originally published by The Register as “AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs”.