Should we build our own cloud-ops agents, buy them, or both?

The market already voted: enterprises flipped from building 47% of their AI solutions in-house in 2024 to buying 76% in 2025 (Menlo Ventures, State of Generative AI in the Enterprise), and Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027, mostly over cost and risk controls. Some of the largest AWS estates do build their own agents on AWS's native toolkits — typically single-purpose, with a permanent engineering commitment behind each one, and even those teams say most companies don't have the time or money to do it. AlertD's answer is both: buy the purpose-built ops team — org-wide discovery, context in seconds, eval-hardened — and keep building your own agents for what's unique to you. They connect: your agents can call AlertD's over MCP.