Collect
Ingest CloudTrail, Config, Terraform, deployment, inventory, and ownership metadata across authorized accounts and regions.
AWS production change intelligence
Infrastructure Change TrackingSee every cloud and infrastructure change in context.
Turn high-volume AWS events, Terraform plans, configuration drift, permission updates, and network modifications into clear production change records connected to owners, services, releases, and customer impact.
Designed for AWS workloads without claiming AWS Partner status.AWSInfrastructure change
IAM role policy expanded
production-payments-worker · eu-central-1
- Source: Terraform plan and CloudTrail
- Actor: platform-release-role
- Owner: Payments Platform
- 7 downstream services
- Risk: high · approval required
The problem
Cloud activity is not the same as production understanding.
AWS and infrastructure tools generate detailed events, but responders still need to determine which release caused them, whether they match declared intent, who owns the resource, which services depend on it, and which customers may be exposed.
Why existing approaches fail
Raw events create volume without operational meaning.
- CloudTrail records API activity but does not explain downstream business impact.
- AWS Config shows state history without the full release narrative.
- Terraform plans describe intended changes but not later console drift.
- Account-by-account views fragment ownership and multi-region dependencies.
The ReleaseAtlas solution
Normalize declared and observed infrastructure changes, correlate them with releases and identities, enrich them with dependency and ownership context, and apply consistent risk and audit policies.
How it works
From cloud event volume to a production change timeline.
Correlate
Group related API calls and state changes with plans, commits, actors, pipelines, release windows, and affected resources.
Explain and control
Compare intent with reality, calculate dependency exposure, notify owners, enforce policy, and preserve a reviewable history.
Key capabilities
Infrastructure change context across accounts and tools.
AWS CloudTrail
Convert relevant API events into actor-aware, resource-aware production change records.
AWS Config
Track resource configuration history and associate state transitions with planned or unplanned changes.
Terraform plans
Review create, update, replace, and destroy intent with ownership, dependency, cost, and policy context.
Configuration drift
Compare declared state, observed state, and prior approved state to identify unmanaged production changes.
IAM changes
Highlight privilege expansion, role trust changes, policy attachment, and sensitive resource access.
Network changes
Contextualize security group, route, load balancer, DNS, gateway, and connectivity modifications.
Resource ownership
Resolve service, platform, security, data, and business owners for changed infrastructure.
Multi-account visibility
Search and correlate authorized production activity across accounts, regions, environments, and organizational units.
Change history
Review previous values, actors, approvals, linked releases, incidents, and final operational outcomes.
Technical workflow
Correlate declared intent with observed production state.
ReleaseAtlas uses scoped collectors and event sources to match Terraform intent, pipeline execution, AWS API activity, resource state, and dependency context without requiring broad write access.
Plan + events→Correlate→Dependency context→Risk + evidence
An emergency security-group edit bypasses Terraform.
During troubleshooting, an engineer expands inbound access through the AWS console. CloudTrail captures the actor and API call; AWS Config confirms the state change; ReleaseAtlas identifies drift from the approved Terraform definition.
The graph connects the group to a public API, seven downstream services, two production regions, and 41 customer tenants. Security and service owners receive a high-risk review with the exact remediation path.
Expected operational outcomes
Find important infrastructure changes without chasing logs.
- Correlate AWS and Terraform activity into fewer, meaningful change records.
- Identify drift, ownership, affected services, and customer exposure earlier.
- Give incident responders a time-ordered history across accounts and regions.
- Preserve evidence for intended, emergency, and out-of-band changes.
Coverage depends on enabled AWS data sources, account scope, event delivery, and maintained ownership mappings.
Security notes
Use read-only collection and scoped cross-account roles.
Follow least-privilege AWS guidance, separate production accounts and workspaces, limit regions and event categories to required scope, protect external IDs and role trust, avoid ingesting secret values, restrict sensitive IAM and network views, and audit every policy override or remediation action.
Review security controls →Related services
Dependency Mapping
Connect changed cloud resources to runtime and customer paths.
Change Risk Analysis
Score IAM, network, drift, timing, and blast-radius evidence.
Audit and Compliance
Retain infrastructure actors, approvals, state, and outcomes.
FAQ
Infrastructure tracking questions.
Is ReleaseAtlas a replacement for CloudTrail or AWS Config?
No. Those services remain authoritative sources. ReleaseAtlas correlates their data with Terraform, pipelines, dependencies, ownership, releases, customer exposure, risk policy, and audit workflows.
Can ReleaseAtlas work across multiple AWS accounts?
Yes. Authorized account and region data can be normalized into one workspace while preserving account, environment, and organizational boundaries.
How is Terraform drift identified?
ReleaseAtlas can compare declared plan or state context with observed AWS resource changes and approved history. Drift coverage depends on the Terraform and AWS data made available.
Does the integration require write access to AWS?
Not for change visibility and analysis. Read-only collection is the recommended starting point. Any remediation or orchestration actions require separate, explicitly scoped authorization.
Cloud change with context
Connect AWS activity to the production systems it can affect.
See intent, drift, identity, ownership, dependency, risk, and history without searching across accounts and tools.