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AWS gives you an agent.
Cleric gives you a learning system for production.

AWS DevOps Agent connects to many systems, while Cleric learns your environment, conventions, and workflows over time.

Four dimensions that matter in production

Investigation surface

Cleric

Cloud, code, deploys, observability, tickets, chat, and customer context.

AWS DevOps Agent

AWS, multicloud, and on-prem signals across observability, code, and deployment systems.

Definition of an issue

Cleric

Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.

AWS DevOps Agent

Can start from alerts and on-demand SRE tasks.

Integrations

Cleric

No walled garden. If a system has an API or MCP server, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.

AWS DevOps Agent

Broad built-in integrations across observability, code repositories, CI/CD, and MCP.

Compounding knowledge and accuracy

Cleric

Measured against real outcomes, with stronger patterns over time.

AWS DevOps Agent

No documented accuracy layer or post-remediation verification loop.

AWS DevOps Agent is an agent. Cleric is an autonomous learning system.

Stage
Cleric
AWS DevOps Agent

Orient

Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.

Autonomous, human gated
Not covered

Detect

Recognizes a meaningful production issue.

Autonomous
Autonomous

Investigate

Correlates evidence to explain what happened.

Autonomous
Autonomous

Act / escalate

Takes action or routes to the right human.

Autonomous, human gated
Autonomous, human gated

Verify

Checks whether the fix actually worked.

Autonomous
Not covered

Learn

Improves future work from resolved outcomes.

Autonomous
Manual

Orient

Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.

Cleric
Autonomous, human gated
AWS DevOps Agent
Not covered

Detect

Recognizes a meaningful production issue.

Cleric
Autonomous
AWS DevOps Agent
Autonomous

Investigate

Correlates evidence to explain what happened.

Cleric
Autonomous
AWS DevOps Agent
Autonomous

Act / escalate

Takes action or routes to the right human.

Cleric
Autonomous, human gated
AWS DevOps Agent
Autonomous, human gated

Verify

Checks whether the fix actually worked.

Cleric
Autonomous
AWS DevOps Agent
Not covered

Learn

Improves future work from resolved outcomes.

Cleric
Autonomous
AWS DevOps Agent
Manual

Bottom line

AWS DevOps Agent is a broad agent with a strong integration catalog. Cleric is a learning system for production that you shape around your environment and conventions. That is the difference between using an agent and improving how the whole system gets understood over time.

See how Cleric investigates your production issues

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