OpsAct vs AWS DevOps Agent
AWS DevOps Agent is Amazon’s operations agent for incident response, prevention and on-demand SRE tasks, billed per second of work. If you run on AWS, it sits close to your data. OpsAct is built for estates that are partly or mostly outside the cloud.
At a glance
| OpsAct | AWS DevOps Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | A control plane hosted in the EU, plus small agents on your sites that only dial out | AWS |
| Where your data is processed | EU only. Credentials and raw data stay on your sites | AWS regions; EU availability not stated on the pricing page |
| What it covers | Hybrid estates: VMware, Windows and Linux servers, databases, network switches, Kubernetes and cloud | AWS, multicloud and on-premises environments, according to AWS |
| Discovery and dependency map | Built in. Finds what you run and maps what depends on what, before any incident | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Fixes | Runs fixes from reviewed runbooks, shown as flowcharts with every step’s risk labelled | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Approval before changes | Every change to production waits for a person. More autonomy is earned per runbook | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Learning from past incidents | Remembers past incidents and turns approved fixes into runbooks | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| DORA and NIS2 reports | Drafts DORA and NIS2 incident reports for a person to check and send | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Pricing | A platform fee by estate size, from €1,500 a month for up to 250 systems, investigations included | $0.0083 per agent-second, about $4 for an 8-minute investigation; free trial for new customers |
Where OpsAct differs
Made for on-site estates
OpsAct’s agents discover and act on VMware, Windows and Linux servers, databases and switches in your own data centres.
An EU vendor
OpsAct is a European company processing data only in the EU.
Fixes with approval built in
Plans come from reviewed runbooks, each step marked by risk, and run only after a person approves.
Predictable cost
A platform fee by estate size, with investigations included.
Which one fits
Choose AWS when
- Nearly everything you run is on AWS.
- You want pay-per-use with no commitment.
Choose OpsAct when
- A large part of your estate is in your own data centres.
- You want an EU vendor processing data only in the EU.
- You want approved fixes and a flat price.
Sources
Facts about AWS DevOps Agent come from these pages, checked on 13 October 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@opsact.eu and we’ll fix it.
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