TrueWatch has been named AWS Partner of the Year! Read our recap of AWS re:Invent 2025, focusing on three major shifts in AI complexity, FinOps, and data residency that are redefining cloud operations.
AWS re:Invent 2025 reinforced a clear reality: cloud operations is being rebuilt for the AI era.
Teams are dealing with more services, more dependencies, and faster change. At the same time, leadership expects stronger control of risk and spending. In that environment, the goal is no longer “better dashboards.” The goal is predictable operations at scale.
Below are three shifts that stood out most, and how teams can respond with an AI-ready, governed observability approach.
AI increases operational complexity, not just innovation
GenAI features and agent-like workflows increase the operational surface area:
- More upstream and downstream dependencies
- New latency and failure patterns
- More dynamic architectures that change frequently
- Mitigate new security risks, including prompt injection and model manipulation
This changes what “good observability” means. Teams need a platform that can correlate signals across logs, metrics, traces, events, RUM, and AI-driven workflows, providing a single pane of glass that makes it easier to investigate and act—especially during incidents.
TrueWatch is designed for dynamism introduced by AI. It’s highly customizable, can track AI traffic and agent-like workflows, and integrates our own AI tooling to automatically suggest findings and insights. By unifying all signals—including traditional telemetry and new AI signals—TrueWatch improves investigation speed, helps teams make faster decisions, and gives AI models the full context they need to produce reliable recommendations.
FinOps is moving from reporting to operational control
Cloud cost governance is no longer a monthly spreadsheet exercise. It is becoming part of day-to-day operations:
- Detect anomalies early
- Attribute costs to teams and services clearly
- Turn optimization into repeatable workflows
- Make spending predictable as usage scales
This is also why “observability cost” is now under the same scrutiny as “cloud cost.” When telemetry growth drives unpredictable monitoring bills, adoption stalls and trust drops.
TrueWatch is built for predictable, cost-effective operations at scale. With transparent metering, guardrails like tagging and rightsizing, and platform architecture that reduces tool sprawl and duplicated spend, it allows us to pass technology-driven cost savings directly to our customers.
Governance and residency are now default requirements
As organizations expand globally and operate across regulated environments, governance is not optional. Observability data often contains sensitive context. Teams must be able to:
- Control who can access what (SSO, RBAC)
- Audit access and actions
- Mask or redact sensitive fields
- Choose deployment and residency models that fit compliance needs
This is one reason AWS Marketplace has become a strategic operating model. Teams want speed of adoption, but also want governance from day one.
TrueWatch was built for that enterprise reality: a unified platform with residency choices and enterprise controls, designed to scale across teams without multiplying tools and complexity.
Final thoughts
In the AI era, the differentiator is not the one who builds the fastest. It is who can operate the fastest without losing control—reliability, governance, and cost.
If you want to evaluate your current stack quickly, use a four-question framework:
- Do we have unified telemetry across the signals we actually need?
- Do we have the governance and residency controls we require?
- Can we take explainable action during incidents, not just view data?
- Can we scale coverage without unpredictable costs?
A food for thought: if your operational signal volume doubles in the next year, what breaks first—your telemetry pipeline, your on-call process, your governance approvals, or your cost controls?
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