According to the latest Datadog State of DevSecOps report, a surprising amount of organizations still aren’t embracing cloud automation. At least 38% of organizations leveraging AWS had deployed workloads or completed sensitive actions manually through the AWS console in a production environment within a 14-day period, meaning they are relying on manual efforts instead of automation.
By adopting the best practice of cloud automation, organizations can realize many benefits, such as:
Improved quality control and performance due to fewer human or user errors
Faster innovation as automation frees engineers from manual repetitive manual tasks
Significant cost savings as automation helps keep workloads optimized and efficient
At nOps, we manage $2 billion in AWS spend, and that wouldn’t be possible without cloud automation. In this article, we’ll cover the top cloud automation tools broken down by category, with key features and tips.
Types of Cloud Automation Tools
There are a few major categories of cloud automation tools we’ll cover in this article:
Cloud Optimization Tools: automate rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, and commitment management to reduce waste. They provide engineering and FinOps teams with data-driven insights into usage patterns and cost anomalies. Automation replaces manual reviews and enables continuous cost control.
Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tools: manage infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code. They reduce manual effort, enforce environment consistency, and integrate into CI/CD workflows. Teams can scale environments quickly without introducing configuration drift.
Configuration Management Tools: automate the setup and enforcement of system configurations across fleets of servers. They maintain version-controlled policies, streamline patching, and minimize inconsistencies between environments. This ensures stable application performance during scaling or updates.
Monitoring and Observability Tools: collect metrics, logs, and traces to give visibility into application and infrastructure health. They support automated alerting and integrate with auto-scaling and incident workflows, as well as advanced techniques to visualize and manage large datasets effectively.
Security and Compliance Tools: scan for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and policy violations across cloud environments. They automate remediation and enforce security baselines through defined rules. Continuous checks replace periodic audits, reducing risk and manual workload.
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5+ Best Cloud Automation Tools and Platforms for Services In 2025
1. BuildPiper
BuildPiper is an enterprise-grade central DevSecOps platform that enables modern engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable applications across cloud-native environments with high velocity. It provides a single pane of glass to manage infrastructure orchestration, CI/CD pipeline automation, security enforcement, and observability — all within one seamless, production-ready platform.
With native, one-click integrations across 50+ leading tools — including GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Datadog, AWS, Azure, and more — BuildPiper fits effortlessly into modern enterprise ecosystems. It supports Day 0 Kubernetes operations, multi/hybrid-cloud setups, cloud cost governance, and self-service environments to drive developer efficiency without operational sprawl.
BuildPiper helps teams improve DORA metrics like deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and MTTR, while also enabling audit readiness, developer insights, and real-time visibility. Enterprises using BuildPiper typically report 30–40% cost savings, faster release velocity, and stronger platform resilience across environments.
Trusted by brands like Airtel, Lenskart, McKesson, WM, and several Fortune 100 enterprises, BuildPiper brings the standardization, velocity, control, and precision needed to engineer modern software delivery — securely, efficiently, and at scale.
2. OpsTree
OpsTree Solutions is a Digital Transformation and Platform Engineering partner that empowers technology leaders and teams to achieve impactful, scalable tech outcomes. Our expertise spans across Modernization, Data & AI, Observability & SRE, Cloud & DevSecOps, Security, Quality Engineering, and End-to-End Software Delivery — enabling businesses to accelerate their digital journeys with the right outcomes.
OpsTree recognized as a pioneer in making application delivery lean, nimble, and highly productive through best-in-class cloud (Public, Private, Hybrid) and DevSecOps platform implementations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and a select App Modernization specialist, OpsTree helps organizations realize the full potential of cloud-native transformation — blending secure modernization with AI-driven innovation and operational excellence. Our in-house central DevSecOps platform, BuildPiper, further strengthens this capability — offering enterprises a secure, standardized framework to accelerate and simplify software delivery at scale.
Over 250+ organizations, including startups, high-growth companies, unicorns, decacorns, and Fortune 100 global enterprises, rely on our top-tier software delivery and platform engineering expertise to scale efficiently, reduce complexity, and accelerate time to market. OpsTree is a knowledge- and competency-first organization, driven by the ethos of Continuous Learning, Unwavering Ethics, and Focused Thought Leadership — our 100+ open-source repositories stand as a testament to this spirit.
Our progressive, nurturing, and nimble environment makes OpsTree a fun and fulfilling place to work and grow. We foster a transparent, inclusive, and flat organizational culture that encourages ownership, continuous learning, and bold thinking — shaping the next generation of platform engineers and cloud-native innovators.
3. Spacelift
Spacelift is not exactly a cloud automation tool, but it takes cloud automation and orchestration to the next level. It is a platform designed to manage infrastructure-as-code tools such as OpenTofu, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Ansible, and Terragrunt, allowing teams to use their favorite tools without compromising functionality or efficiency.
Advantages
Spacelift provides a unified interface for deploying, managing, and controlling cloud resources across various providers. Still, it is API-first, so whatever you can do in the interface, you could do via the API, the CLI it offers, or even the OpenTofu/Terraform provider.
The platform enhances collaboration among DevOps teams, streamlines workflow management, and enforces governance across all infrastructure deployments. Spacelift’s dashboard provides visibility into the state of your infrastructure, enabling real-time monitoring and decision-making, and it can also detect and remediate drift.
You can leverage your favorite VCS (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Azure DevOps), and executing multi-IaC workflows is a question of simply implementing dependencies and sharing outputs between your configurations.
4. Terraform
Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows you to define, provision, and manage cloud resources using a declarative language. It lets teams describe their entire infrastructure in human-readable configuration files, making it easy to version, share, and reuse across multiple projects by integrating with source control.
Terraform is cloud-agnostic, supporting all major cloud providers, and its functionality can be extended by creating custom modules.
Key features
Terraform’s key feature is its declarative approach to infrastructure management. You define the desired state, and Terraform internally determines the necessary steps to be executed to achieve the desired state. It creates and confirms the execution plan and only implements the change if it exists.
It also offers modularity so that you can create reusable components consistently. A state file maintained by Terraform itself manages information related to the real-world provisioned components using Terraform. This enables team collaboration.
5. AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is an IaC service provided by AWS for AWS. You can define infrastructure using declarative templates, which can be reused for multiple projects. The templates are written in JSON or YAML formats. CloudFormation templates are created to provision resources like EC2 instances, RDS databases, and any other type of service provided by AWS.
Features
If all your infrastructure requirements are contained in AWS, CloudFormation might be a good choice for a comprehensive IaC solution. You can leverage its UI to model and manage infrastructure components for a given stack/application.
It automates the provisioning process, making sure that resources are created in a safe, repeatable manner.
It also supports rollbacks for reverting the recent changes and automatically reverts the changes in case of errors before exiting the execution.
License: AWS proprietary
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