AI-powered cloud diagnostics for AWS.
OpsMate is a diagnostic engine I’ve built that connects to your AWS accounts via secure, read-only roles and turns infrastructure reality into clear, human-readable insight—without agents or months of tooling work.
Today, OpsMate is delivered as part of my fractional CTO / Cloud Lead engagements, tailored to each client.
What OpsMate does
OpsMate ingests a read-only view of your AWS accounts and produces architecture, operational and cost insights, using a combination of structured analysis and modern language models.
- Secure, cross-account discovery (via IAM role assume, no agents).
- Inventory and posture across EC2, RDS, ECS, VPC, IAM, S3, Config and more.
- AI-written summaries of risks, opportunities and strange-looking patterns.
- FinOps and DR posture scored in plain language that execs can follow.
OpsMate grew out of real work in a multi-account, mission-critical environment. It’s opinionated about what matters, and conservative about access: read-only, minimal blast radius, and happy in environments that already have their own security and audit expectations.
Key capabilities
Cross-account discovery
Uses secure, read-only IAM roles to map EC2, RDS, ECS, VPC, load balancers, S3, IAM and Config state without deploying agents.
Architecture & DR insight
Highlights single points of failure, missing multi-AZ patterns, weak backup posture and DR gaps in simple, direct language.
Cost & FinOps signals
Surfaces waste, idle resources, poor sizing and SP/RI opportunities, and explains them in a way that finance can understand.
Security & compliance cues
Flags obvious misconfigurations (public endpoints, permissive security groups, missing encryption) and relates them to ISO-style expectations.
AI-generated reports
Weekly or monthly OpsMate reports summarise the state of your environment, written for humans rather than dashboards.
RAG over your environment
Stores key facts in a vector-backed store so you can ask natural language questions about your environment, history and changes.
How OpsMate is delivered today
OpsMate is not a self-service SaaS product. It’s a capability I bring into fractional CTO / Cloud Lead engagements so that discovery, prioritisation and reporting are much faster and more objective.
- Initial onboarding: connect your accounts via read-only IAM roles.
- First pass analysis: establish a baseline of architecture, DR, cost and risk.
- Ongoing cadence: regular reports and refreshed insights as things change.
- Action: translate findings into a concrete 3–6 month roadmap with your team.
The value isn’t just the data; it’s the interpretation and the decisions that follow. Pairing OpsMate with a fractional CTO engagement means recommendations don’t get stuck in a PDF—they get turned into architecture choices, DR improvements, guardrails and team practices.
Where OpsMate is heading
OpsMate’s roadmap is driven by real client needs. Over time, I expect it to deepen in a few directions:
- Richer compliance views (ISO 27001 / SOC2-aligned scoring and evidence pointers).
- Change timelines: “what actually changed this week, and why does it matter?”.
- Environment drift detection between dev/stage/prod.
- Deeper FinOps: forecasting and early warning on budget deviations.
- Possible multi-tenant SaaS form for clients who want direct access to the data.
Using OpsMate in your organisation
If you’re interested in OpsMate, the path in is through a fractional CTO / Cloud Lead engagement. That way, the same person who builds and runs the diagnostics is also accountable for using those insights to improve your architecture, DR, cost and security posture.
A good starting question for a first conversation is simply:
“If OpsMate had visibility of our AWS for a week, what do you expect it would tell us—and what are you hoping it wouldn’t?”
That usually opens up exactly the right discussion.