Question 1

What is AlertD?

Accepted Answer

AlertD is a zero config, AI native platform of AWS native AI agents for cloud operations. It runs entirely inside your own AWS VPC and lets DevOps, SRE, security, and compliance teams understand and optimize their AWS environment in plain English, backed by live AWS metrics and resources. Instead of just observing your cloud, AlertD operates it across four areas: cost, security, compliance, and performance.

Question 2

What does AlertD do?

Accepted Answer

AlertD automates AWS cloud operations across four areas in one platform: cost (FinOps), security, compliance, and performance. It auto discovers your entire AWS environment, learns what normal looks like for every resource, and surfaces what matters in seconds, so teams get more value from the AWS services they already run without writing scripts or building dashboards.

Question 3

Who is AlertD for?

Accepted Answer

AlertD is built for DevOps, SRE, security, and compliance teams and FinOps practitioners running workloads on AWS. It is for anyone who needs to understand cost, security, compliance, or performance on AWS without writing custom scripts or hunting through dashboards.

Question 4

What is AlertD's vision?

Accepted Answer

AlertD is building toward autonomous AI for AWS operations. Today it answers questions, generates dashboards, and surfaces evidence based recommendations; over time it moves toward proactively handling the cost, security, compliance, and performance work that keeps your cloud healthy, always with a human approving any change.

Question 5

How does AlertD help DevOps and SRE teams?

Accepted Answer

AlertD eliminates manual toil in DevOps and SRE workflows. Instead of writing custom scripts or switching between observability tools, you ask a plain English question such as why did Lambda costs spike this week, and AlertD returns real time dashboards, analysis, and AI driven recommendations in seconds, work that once took hours, days, or weeks.

Question 6

Do I need to configure AlertD or build dashboards?

Accepted Answer

No. AlertD is zero config and fully AI native, so you never install a collector, build a dashboard, write a query, or maintain alerting rules. Within about an hour of deployment, AlertD auto inventories your entire fleet across accounts and regions, links every metric to every resource, maps your topology, and learns what normal means for each resource automatically.

Question 7

What does AlertD do out of the box?

Accepted Answer

AlertD auto generates dashboards and AI driven insights across your AWS environment from day one, with no scripting, BI work, or configuration. It also catches changes as they happen, including drift, orphaned resources, and out of band CLI changes, and it classifies resources into cohorts even when your tags are incomplete.

Question 8

What questions can I ask AlertD?

Accepted Answer

You can ask AlertD anything about your AWS environment in plain English, with no queries, scripts, or dashboards required. Common examples include:

What is causing slow performance in my AWS environment
Why did my AWS costs increase this week
Are any of my S3 buckets publicly accessible
Which EC2 or RDS instances are overutilized right now,
Do I have any security groups with open SSH access.

AlertD translates each question into AWS specific analysis with live metrics, AI generated dashboards, and context aware insights in seconds. Most teams interact through Flappy, AlertD's conversational agent in Slack.

Question 9

Does AlertD make changes to my AWS environment automatically?

Accepted Answer

No. AlertD runs with read only access and never makes a change on its own. For each opportunity it generates a ready to apply runbook in Terraform, CloudFormation, or the AWS CLI that you review and apply through your own pipeline and approvals, so your engineers stay in control of every action.

Question 10

What AWS services does AlertD support?

Accepted Answer

AlertD natively supports a broad range of AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, EBS, EKS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, IAM, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, SNS, and SQS. It analyzes resources, metrics, and configurations across all of them.

Question 11

How does AlertD reduce AWS costs?

Accepted Answer

AlertD reduces AWS costs by continuously finding and eliminating waste with evidence based recommendations. Always on agents scan your environment and surface savings opportunities with the supporting CloudWatch evidence such as idle time, utilization, and a confidence level. Most resources come with more than one safe path, including right size, migrate, or decommission, each with estimated savings and a ready to apply runbook. AlertD then tracks realized savings and effective bill reduction over time.

Question 12

What is agentic cloud cost optimization?

Accepted Answer

Agentic cloud cost optimization is the use of always on AI agents to continuously analyze your cloud, surface evidence based savings, and generate the steps to apply them, compressing work that took engineers hours or days into seconds while a human approves the final action. Industry surveys estimate that roughly a quarter to a third of cloud spend is wasted, largely because finding savings and capturing them are two different jobs. AlertD closes that gap.

Question 13

How does AlertD improve AWS security?

Accepted Answer

AlertD improves AWS security by continuously analyzing your configuration and surfacing critical gaps within minutes of turning it on. It flags issues such as publicly accessible S3 buckets, open security groups, and risky IAM, each with the context and a recommended fix, so you can remediate quickly through your own pipeline.

Question 14

How does AlertD help with compliance?

Accepted Answer

AlertD helps with compliance by analyzing your deployments, identifying gaps, and helping implement and enforce comprehensive tagging. It brings a half built or drifting compliance posture into shape quickly, and it does not depend on clean tags to begin with.

Question 15

How does AlertD improve performance and reliability?

Accepted Answer

AlertD improves performance and reliability by analyzing resource utilization and performance signals across your AWS environment, flagging degradation and bottlenecks before they become incidents, and recommending optimizations. This includes right sizing complex Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS workloads and optimizing expensive resources such as GPUs, replacing manual log and metric digging.

Question 16

Where is AlertD deployed?

Accepted Answer

AlertD is deployed directly inside your own AWS VPC and is not a SaaS. It is delivered as a container image on Amazon ECS, which gives you full data control with no zero trust trade offs.

Question 17

Is AlertD secure and compliant?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AlertD runs inside your AWS VPC with read only API access and follows your existing AWS IAM policies, so no data ever leaves your cloud. AlertD is SOC 2 Type II certified, making it enterprise grade for AI driven SRE and DevOps automation.

Question 18

Can I use my own LLM with AlertD?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AlertD is LLM agnostic, so you can use OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, or your own private LLM through Amazon Bedrock. Your data and your model choice stay under your control while AlertD performs AI cloud operations automation natively on AWS.

Question 19

Does AlertD replace my observability tools?

Accepted Answer

No. AlertD does not replace Prometheus, Datadog, or CloudWatch; it adds an AI automation layer on top of them. Where observability tools give you metrics, logs, and traces that you still have to interpret, AlertD comprehends the signal, grades health against learned baselines, and tells you what to do. It operates your cloud at machine speed instead of just observing it.

Question 20

How is AlertD different from AWS Q or Claude?

Accepted Answer

AlertD is purpose built for SRE and DevOps on AWS, while AWS Q and Claude are general purpose assistants. AlertD is not just a chat assistant; it is an automation engine that pulls live AWS data, generates interactive dashboards, and correlates metrics, resources, tags, and team knowledge to deliver actionable insights instantly. AlertD coexists with AWS Q and Claude rather than competing, and it adds collaboration features for teams to capture and share tribal knowledge.

Question 21

How is AlertD different from other AI SRE tools?

Accepted Answer

AlertD addresses the proactive work that most AI SRE tools skip. Most AI SRE tools focus on reactive root cause analysis, which is roughly 20 percent of a DevOps team workload. AlertD complements those tools by addressing the other 80 percent: proactively optimizing cloud cost, strengthening security, ensuring compliance, and improving performance.

Question 22

How much does AlertD cost?

Accepted Answer

AlertD is available on AWS Marketplace with flexible annual and multiyear contract options, and it offers a free 30 day trial so you can see value in your own environment before committing.

Question 23

Is there a free trial, and how do I get started?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AlertD offers a free 30 day trial for AWS teams who want to experience AI powered cloud operations without risk. You will see auto discovered insights and savings opportunities in your own environment within about an hour of deployment. You can start at alertd.ai/free-30-day-trial.

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