Live Demo

Preventing a Production Outage

An AI agent attempts to terminate a compute instance assumed to be idle. OpenKedge detects hidden dependencies and prevents a catastrophic outage.

Instance
i-abc123
Region
us-east-1
Downstream services
2
Requested action
TerminateInstances

Direct infrastructure delete proposed by an AI agent

Hidden dependency
Active load balancer target

1,243 live connections observed

Protected outcome
Termination denied

Governance blocks execution before the cloud API is touched

Impact Panel

What would have happened WITHOUT OpenKedge

Service outage
API downtime
Cascading failure
WITH OpenKedge

Governance blocks the blast radius.

Action blocked
System stable
Termination request never reaches execution.

Policy evaluation detects active traffic and withholds the execution contract.

Service health remains intact.

OpenKedge turns an unsafe AI request into auditable evidence instead of a production change.

System stable. Load balancer target stays healthy.
Evidence Replay

Watch the outage get stopped before execution

The replay shows the exact evidence progression: unsafe request, hidden dependency discovery, policy denial, withheld approval boundary, blocked execution, and a stable system outcome.

Cloud Outage Replay
Evidence Timeline
Governance Boundary
IntentContextPolicy DecisionExecution ContractExecution ResultEvidence OutcomeCryptographically linkedlineage
intent

Terminate EC2 Instance

AI agent proposes to terminate i-abc123 (assumed unused)

Metadata
{
  "instanceId": "i-abc123",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "requestedAction": "TerminateInstances"
}