Tracing failures across Terraform state boundaries with AWS DevOps Agent
AWS publishes a walkthrough of using AWS DevOps Agent to trace failures across separate Terraform state files. The sample has an infrastructure team tighten a security group egress rule, which breaks an application Lambda's DynamoDB access, and the agent correlates CloudWatch alarms and CloudTrail to point at the networking change. The post also covers provisioning the agent space with the hashicorp/awscc provider and bridging CloudWatch alarms to the agent's HMAC-signed webhook through a Lambda function. The source text is cut off before the walkthrough is complete.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams that split infrastructure into multiple Terraform stacks could use an AI agent to trace cross-stack root causes, but the source shows only a demo. The webhook is console-only and not exposed as a Terraform resource, so it needs manual setup.
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