Hyground vs AWS DevOps Agent

Investigate incidents across every cloud, without picking one

AWS DevOps Agent is an AWS-managed service that reaches Azure and on-prem through adapters. Hyground runs inside your own Kubernetes clusters on AWS, Azure, GCP, Stackit, or bare metal, with no preferred cloud.

Cloud-neutral vs AWS-managed

Both platforms autonomously investigate alerts, correlate telemetry with code and deployments, and write a root-cause summary. AWS DevOps Agent runs from AWS-managed infrastructure and reaches non-AWS workloads via MCP. Hyground installs into your own Kubernetes cluster and treats every cloud and on-prem environment as a first-class target.

Architecture

Where Hyground differs

Six choices that change where your data lives, which cloud you can operate in, and which model runs the investigation.

Cloud-neutral by design

Hyground ships first-party deployment automation for AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), GCP (GKE), and Stackit, plus any conformant Kubernetes cluster on-prem. Hyground treats every cloud the same; AWS DevOps Agent reaches Azure and on-prem through MCP adapters running from an AWS Agent Space, with the AWS-managed control plane in six AWS regions.

Runs inside your perimeter

Hyground installs via Helm into your own cluster. Telemetry, code context, prompts, and the RAG knowledge base never leave your network, including air-gapped sites. AWS DevOps Agent transits prompts and context to AWS-managed Bedrock inference, even from Frankfurt or Ireland Agent Spaces.

Bring or self-host your LLM

Hyground uses LiteLLM, so you can point investigations at Azure OpenAI in your own tenant, Anthropic, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, or a self-hosted Ollama or vLLM endpoint. AWS DevOps Agent is fixed to a Bedrock-managed model that AWS has not publicly named (Anthropic ASL-3 protections are disclosed, but the vendor is not confirmed); customers cannot choose, swap, or self-host it.

Kubernetes-native across every cluster

Hyground treats Kubernetes as the primary substrate: a central manager orchestrates outposts in each cluster, with @cluster routing across dozens of production, staging, and on-prem clusters. AWS DevOps Agent is native to EKS via Access Entries; non-EKS clusters come in indirectly via MCP.

Living documentation, not just RCAs

Hyground ingests Confluence, Git, runbooks, and PDFs into an in-cluster pgvector knowledge base and writes findings back as post-mortems and known-issue notes. AWS DevOps Agent reads code and runbooks and produces RCA summaries, but does not publish documentation as a first-class output.

License sized to infrastructure, not seconds

Hyground licenses by deployment tier, with no per-seat or per-second usage fees. AWS DevOps Agent bills at $0.0083 per agent-second of active task time; AWS Support credits offset the cost at tiered rates (30% on Business, 75% on Enterprise, 100% on Unified Operations).

Decision

When each platform fits

AWS DevOps Agent is an AWS-managed service. Hyground runs inside your own clusters. The right fit depends on where your workloads run and where your data is allowed to go.

Choose Hyground when

You run more than one cloud, or you need investigation data to stay inside your own perimeter.

Your estate spans AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, or sovereign EU clouds
Prompts, telemetry, or code context must not leave your network
You need to choose, swap, or self-host the LLM that runs investigations
Kubernetes is the primary substrate, across many clusters and accounts
Regulatory framing requires that SCP or region policies actually bind the agent
Your AWS region-restriction policies (SCPs, Control Tower) must actually bind the investigation agent; AWS's own docs say they don't for DevOps Agent

Choose AWS DevOps Agent when

You are committed to AWS as the primary cloud and want the agent your account team is already pushing.

Your workloads are essentially AWS-only, with no near-term plan to move
You want one-click enable from the AWS console, billed through your EDP
Enterprise or Unified Operations support credits make the agent near-free
Proactive preventive scanning of AWS resources is a priority today
An AWS-managed Bedrock model and read-only posture meet your governance bar

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