Talk to your AWS cloud: why we built Sherpa

Ask three people what’s wrong with their AWS bill and you’ll get four answers. The cost lives in one tool, the security findings in another, the logs and traces in a third, the asset inventory in a fourth. Each one is a different login, a different mental model, a different person to chase.

That’s the real problem. Not cost. Not security. Fragmentation.

Sherpa is an AI-native cloud management platform for AWS that unifies four domains in one place:

• Cost & Usage — every line traced back to the account, service, and idle resource driving it: idle detection, rightsizing across compute, databases, containers and storage, Savings Plan coverage, Graviton and S3 lifecycle moves, data-transfer and NAT optimization, trends and top movers.
• Security posture — agentless CSPM, identity and entitlements (CIEM), external attack-surface analysis, and compliance-framework mapping.
• Cloud inventory — agentless asset inventory across accounts and regions: tagging coverage, config and ownership drift, lifecycle candidates, IaC-managed vs. unmanaged.
• Observability — logs, traces, and metrics with OpenTelemetry compatibility — replace a tool or forward signals in for cross-domain correlation.

On top of that shared data sits the part people remember: you can use it as a dashboard, talk to it, or let it act.

• A unified dashboard across all four domains.
• A domain-tuned agent — not a generic LLM — grounded on your real environment and guardrailed against made-up resource IDs or cost numbers.
• Sherpa Automate — turns a recommendation into a concrete, ready-to-apply change: a step-by-step plan plus a CloudFormation template and the CLI to match, behind a Human-in-the-Loop approval gate, every action audit-logged.

And the one we’re most excited about:

Sherpa Research. Give it a goal — “should we migrate this database to a managed service?”, “what would least-privilege across 40 accounts look like?”, “how do we modernize this monolith without a year-long rewrite?” — and it runs a deep, multi-source investigation grounded in your actual environment, then hands you a board-grade, fully-cited report in minutes. The work that used to take a consultant weeks, at machine speed, with every claim traced to a source.

We’re in early access now. If your cloud has more dashboards than it has answers, that’s exactly the gap we built Sherpa to close.