Quick console fixes during incidents, security group tweaks for deployments, and accidental database modifications create dangerous gaps between intended infrastructure and production reality. Each undocumented change becomes a ticking time bomb where Terraform state mismatches reality and simple hotfixes spiral into systemic risks.
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Traditional drift detection happens weekly at best. Manual audits catch drift only after incidents occur. Your monitoring shows symptoms but can't identify root causes like disabled database insights or misconfigured health checks. By the time you discover drift, recovery time has stretched from minutes to hours.
When drift is discovered, fixing it becomes high-stakes guesswork. Update IaC to match current state or revert infrastructure to templates? Teams spend more time investigating drift than building features while platform engineers become bottlenecks. Fear of breaking things leads to leaving drift in place until major incidents force action.
Developer enables detailed monitoring on RDS instance via
AWS console at 11 PM to fix API timeout, resolving the issue but
creating configuration drift.
Drift goes unnoticed for 2-3 weeks. Next deployment shows unexpected Terraform changes. Team spends 4-6 hours over 2 business days investigating whether monitoring should stay enabled, hunting through messages and incident reports.
StackAnchor detects change within 2 minutes, recognizes it as legitimate performance improvement, and automatically creates pull request to update IaC templates with full context about the change and its impact.
Security audit discovers modified network ACLs across
environments with additional open ports not in original IaC.
Changes vary between staging and production—unclear if needed
for features or security vulnerabilities.
Security team manually investigates each change over 3-5 business days, spending 12-16 hours cross-referencing deployments and interviewing developers. Investigation takes a full work week while potential exposure remains.
StackAnchor correlates network changes with recent deployments and feature flags in under 10 minutes, identifies staging changes support new microservice integration. Automatically reverts unnecessary production changes and updates IaC for legitimate modifications.
New team member troubleshooting failing health check on load balancer, about to modify configuration in AWS console but unsure if it conflicts with existing IaC or creates compliance issues.
Developer makes console change hoping it's temporary. Issue gets fixed but drift is discovered 1-2 weeks later during next Terraform run, requiring 2-3 hours of investigation over 1 business day. No one remembers context, leading to confusion and potential service disruption.
StackAnchor integrates with development workflow, proactively suggests correct change through existing tools in under 30 seconds (Slack, VS Code, Backstage). Suggested fix includes proper IaC update and ensures compliance with security policies from the start.
Configuration drift occurs when actual cloud infrastructure diverges from Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates due to manual console changes during incidents or troubleshooting. It creates security vulnerabilities, breaks disaster recovery plans, causes deployment failures, and makes infrastructure unpredictable.
StackAnchor uses AI agents to continuously monitor AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, detecting drift within minutes of any manual change. Unlike traditional weekly scans, it automatically analyzes impact and determines if changes are intentional improvements or security risks.
Yes, StackAnchor automatically remediates low-risk drift like performance optimizations by updating IaC templates. Security-sensitive changes create pull requests for human review. You control which change types require approval versus auto-remediation based on your governance policies.
StackAnchor supports AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes with Terraform, OpenTofu, and Helm Charts. It integrates with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub/GitLab, and developer tools including Backstage, VS Code, and Slack.
StackAnchor integrates seamlessly without changing existing processes. It connects with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and monitoring tools. Developers interact through familiar interfaces like Slack commands, VS Code extensions, or Backstage templates.
Traditional tools alert you to symptoms after problems occur and require manual investigation. StackAnchor proactively prevents drift by understanding change intent, correlating modifications with deployments, and providing intelligent remediation—telling you why something changed and what to do about it.
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