An AI agent for your AWS cloud: cost, security, and observability in one place

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 a different login, a different mental model, a different person to chase. That’s the problem Sherpa was built to end.

The real problem isn’t cost or security — it’s fragmentation

Most teams don’t have a cost problem, a security problem, and an observability problem. They have a fragmentation problem. The data that would answer your question is real, but it’s scattered across four tools that don’t talk to each other — so the idle load balancer that’s also an exposed attack surface never shows up as one finding, because no single tool can see both halves.

Sherpa closes that gap by putting all four domains on one grounded data layer, then letting you query it in plain language.

What Sherpa unifies: cost, security, inventory, and observability

Sherpa is an AI-native cloud management platform for AWS that brings four domains into 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.

Dashboard, conversation, or action — your choice

The same grounded data backs three ways to work, so you’re never locked into one. Use it as a dashboard, talk to it, or let it make the change:

• 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, with every action audit-logged.

Sherpa Research: a board-grade investigation in minutes

The capability we’re most excited about is 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.

The takeaway

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

FAQ

What is Sherpa?

Sherpa is an AI-native cloud management platform for AWS. It unifies cost, security, observability, and cloud inventory on one grounded data layer, so you can ask questions about your live environment in plain language and act on the answers.

Is Sherpa just a cost tool?

No. Cost and usage is one of four domains Sherpa covers — alongside security posture (CSPM/CIEM/attack surface), cloud inventory, and observability. The value is the connected view across all four, like linking an idle resource to the exposed workload behind it, which no single-domain tool can see.

Can Sherpa make changes to my AWS environment?

Yes, with your approval. Sherpa Automate turns a recommendation into a ready-to-apply change — a step-by-step plan plus a CloudFormation template and matching CLI — behind a human-in-the-loop approval gate, with every action audit-logged.

Does Sherpa need agents installed in my AWS account?

No. Sherpa’s security and inventory assessments are agentless — there’s nothing to deploy into your account to get started.

What is Sherpa Research?

Sherpa Research runs a deep, multi-source investigation against your environment and uploaded materials, then returns a board-grade, fully-cited report in minutes — the kind of analysis that used to take a consultant weeks.