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Building Self-Extending CLI Tools with Strands Agent

Learn how to build CLI tools that extend themselves through natural language using Amazon Bedrock, the Strands Agents SDK, and Model Context Protocol. This post walks through a meta-tooling pattern where generated CLIs can create, refine, and version new commands at runtime—turning days of manual development into minutes of conversational iteration, all without touching source code.

Ensure Code Integrity for AWS Lambda Functions with Automated Code Signing using Terraform

Ensure Code Integrity for AWS Lambda Functions with Automated Code Signing Using Terraform

Authors: Sourav Kundu and Joyson Neville Lewis. In today’s cloud-native landscape, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of your serverless functions is critical for maintaining security and compliance. Organizations face increasing challenges in preventing the execution of tampered or malicious code in their AWS Lambda functions. These challenges intensify as deployment pipelines become more complex and […]

AWS Transform custom: Enterprise Code Modernization with the Learn-Scale-Improve Flywheel

Enterprise modernization has reached an inflection point. You can transform one repository easily. Existing tools, including AWS Transform custom, work well for individual repositories, and the process is understood. But what about 50 repositories? 100? 200? When you need to modernize at enterprise scale, transforming code is only part of the challenge. Coordinating people, capturing […]

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Automating Incident Investigation with AWS DevOps Agent and Salesforce MCP Server

This post was co-written with Ross Belmont, Senior Director, Rodrigo Duran, Strategist Director at Salesforce Every minute counts when managing a critical infrastructure incident. Organizations need to quickly identify issues, diagnose root causes, and implement solutions—all while keeping customers informed. AWS DevOps Agent changes this by automating investigation and response, reducing mean time to resolution […]

Building a scalable code modernization solution with AWS Transform custom

Introduction Software maintenance and modernization is a critical challenge for enterprises managing hundreds or thousands of repositories. Whether upgrading Java versions, migrating to new AWS SDKs, or modernizing frameworks, the scale of transformation work can be overwhelming. AWS Transform custom uses agentic AI to perform large-scale modernization of software, code, libraries, and frameworks to reduce […]

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt

In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, maintaining and modernizing Java applications is a critical challenge for many organizations. As new Java versions are released and best practices evolve, the need for efficient code transformation becomes increasingly important. Organizations today face significant challenges when modernizing their Java applications. Legacy codebases often contain outdated patterns, deprecated APIs, […]

Best Practices for Deploying AWS DevOps Agent in Production

Root cause analysis during incidents is one of the most time-consuming and stressful parts of operating cloud applications. Engineers must quickly correlate telemetry data across multiple services, review deployment history, and understand complex application dependencies—all while under pressure to restore service. AWS DevOps Agent changes this paradigm by bringing autonomous investigation capabilities to your operations […]

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From AI agent prototype to product: Lessons from building AWS DevOps Agent

At re:Invent 2025, Matt Garman announced AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, continuously improving reliability and performance. As a member of the DevOps Agent team, we’ve focused heavily on making sure that the “incident response” capability of the DevOps Agent generates useful findings and observations. In particular, we’ve been […]

Resolve and prevent operational incidents with AWS DevOps Agent and New Relic

This post was co-written with Muthuvelan Swaminathan (Principal Partner Engineer) and Ruchika Bakolia (Software Engineer) from New Relic. Modern distributed systems that generate massive volumes of metrics, traces, and logs are inherently complex. The process of correlating logs, comparing configurations and switching between tools during incident management makes manual root cause analysis a bottleneck that […]

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Accelerate autonomous incident resolutions using the Datadog MCP server and AWS DevOps agent (in preview)

This post was co-written with Omri Sass (Director of Product Management), Cansu Berkem (Director of Product Management), and Mohammad Jama (Product Marketing Manager) from Datadog. On-call engineers spend hours manually investigating incidents across multiple observability tools, logs, and monitoring systems. This process delays incident resolution and impacts business operations, especially when teams need to correlate […]