When an alert fires at 2am, the first 15 minutes aren't spent fixing anything. They're spent gathering context — opening CloudWatch, checking New Relic, scanning recent deploys, pulling up the runbook. By the time you actually understand what's happening, you've burned the fastest part of your response window. AWS DevOps Agent is designed to do that first pass for you. It's an agentic AI system that investigates incidents autonomously — querying your telemetry, correlating deploy events, and posting findings to Slack before you've finished reading the page notification. I set it up as a PoC for our team recently and wanted to share what the setup actually looks like, including the things that tripped me up. What the Agent Actually Does The DevOps Agent sits between your alerting layer and your engineers.…