Hands-on workshop
Building Agents That Safely Operate Real Cloud Infrastructure
December 9th 2026 · Half-day workshop
AI agents can inspect and change cloud infrastructure—but how do you let them act without giving up control?
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll first build a read-only inventory and audit agent that queries live resources in an isolated cloud environment and reports what is deployed. You’ll then choose a specialisation—FinOps, site reliability engineering, cloud security posture management, or entitlements and access review—and extend the agent to identify issues and recommend a response.
Finally, you’ll move safely from observation to action: the agent proposes a change, a human approves it, and the agent executes and verifies the result.
You’ll leave with a working cloud-operations agent and access to a public MIT-licensed repository containing every workshop track. No personal cloud or model account is required; isolated environments, credentials and model access are supplied.
About the presenter
Jeffrey Aven
Jeffrey Aven is a software and systems architect, engineer, advisor, educator, author and founder with 35 years of experience in the technology industry. He has written several books on data and analytics and is an authorised trainer for technology vendors including Google, Confluent and Databricks.
Jeffrey is a member of the Google Developer Expert (GDE) program, Google’s invitation-only developer advocate community, and has extensive experience and accreditation across Anthropic and Claude, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks and other cloud, data and SaaS platforms.