Natural Language Queries: Ask Your Infrastructure Anything
Replace console-hopping with plain English — and get answers with full reasoning chains.
Hermeez lets you query your cloud infrastructure in plain English. Instead of writing complex CloudWatch queries, navigating between consoles, or building custom scripts, you simply ask a question and receive a contextual, reasoned answer. Port.io's research found that 75 percent of developers lose more than 6 hours per week due to tool fragmentation — costing roughly $1 million per year in lost productivity for a 50-engineer team. Natural language queries eliminate the fragmentation by providing a single interface to your entire infrastructure.
Questions that were previously investigations
Consider the questions that cloud teams ask every day: "Show me all public-facing resources in production that were modified in the last 48 hours." "Which IAM roles have administrative access and haven't been used in 90 days?" "What's the monthly cost of running our staging environment?" "If this service goes down, what else fails?"
Each of these questions, asked of traditional tools, triggers a multi-step investigation — opening multiple consoles, cross-referencing data sources, and manually assembling the answer. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the mean time to identify and contain a breach dropped to 241 days — the lowest in nine years — but this improvement was driven entirely by AI-powered defenses. Tools like Pulumi Neo are enabling infrastructure management through natural language, and AWS announced dedicated DevOps agents at re:Invent 2025. In Hermeez, these questions are single queries with instant answers because the knowledge graph already contains all the relationships needed to resolve them.
Full reasoning chains — no black boxes
Answers include the full reasoning chain — which resources were examined, what relationships were traversed, and why the result matters. There are no black boxes. You can inspect every step of the analysis, understand why a particular resource was included or excluded, and drill down into specific findings.
This transparency is essential for operational trust. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 40 percent of CIOs will demand "Guardian Agents" to oversee AI agent actions — reflecting the industry's recognition that AI systems must be auditable. When Hermeez tells you that 14 resources are affected by a proposed change, you can see exactly which 14 resources, how they are connected, and what the basis for inclusion is.
From insight to action
The query system supports one-click remediation for common issues. Found an overly permissive security group? Hermeez can generate the tightened rule set through its Security Agent for your review and apply it with approval. Discovered unused resources? The Cost Agent can flag them for decommission with a dependency check confirming nothing will break. Need to enforce a new tagging policy? It can identify all non-compliant resources and generate the bulk update.
Every action is logged with full context — who initiated it, what query produced the finding, what the state was before and after, and how to reverse it if needed. The goal is not automation for its own sake but automation with visibility, control, and auditability.
A new way to operate infrastructure
Natural language queries change the relationship between engineers and their infrastructure. With 80 percent of enterprises managing multi-cloud strategies and the cloud-native ecosystem reaching 15.6 million developers according to CNCF and SlashData, the need for accessible infrastructure intelligence has never been greater.
This democratization of infrastructure knowledge is one of the most significant shifts Hermeez enables. Security insights are no longer locked in a security team's tool. Cost data is no longer trapped in a finance dashboard. Architecture understanding is no longer limited to the two engineers who designed the system. When anyone can ask the infrastructure a question and get a reliable answer, the entire organization operates with better information.