The following is a consolidated list of AI use cases for platform engineering that professional teams are either implementing or considering. This report was compiled based on data gathered by Gitpod during PlatformCon 2025 from running workshops in both London and New York. We hope that you find it useful and that it informs and inspires the decisions you make on your own roadmap and the AI use cases your company chooses to invest in.
Showing 42 use cases
Development & engineering
Generate boilerplate code, infrastructure configurations, and repetitive patterns using AI tools like GitHub Copilot.
Knowledge & process management
Automatically generate and maintain up-to-date API documentation from code comments and specifications.
Knowledge & process management
AI-powered chatbot to answer common developer questions about platform services and reduce support burden.
Development & engineering
AI-generated standardized templates and golden path examples based on successful implementations.
Knowledge & process management
AI-powered search that understands context and suggests related information from knowledge bases.
Knowledge & process management
AI-powered meeting tools to capture decisions, action items, and create searchable archives of platform decisions.
Security & compliance
AI-powered monitoring to identify abnormal patterns in resource consumption and platform usage.
Development & engineering
AI-powered database optimization tools to analyze query patterns and suggest performance improvements.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered analysis to optimize cloud resource allocation and reduce costs through intelligent rightsizing recommendations.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered monitoring to detect unusual patterns in system behavior before they impact users.
Knowledge & process management
AI-powered analysis of technical debt, stakeholder feedback, and business impact to suggest prioritization.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI analysis of data flows, API calls, and system interactions to automatically map data lineage.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered analysis of code quality, test coverage, and historical deployment success to generate confidence scores.
Development & engineering
AI analysis of test failure patterns to identify unreliable tests and suggest fixes.
Operations & Infrastructure
Comprehensive AI-powered pre-deployment validation that checks configurations, dependencies, and system health.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered storage monitoring that predicts capacity issues and identifies optimization opportunities.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI analysis of usage patterns to recommend optimal reserved instance purchases and commitment levels.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered incident triage that routes incidents to the right team members with proper context.
Development & engineering
Generate comprehensive test suites for existing code using AI analysis of code structure and behavior.
Security & compliance
AI-enhanced vulnerability assessment that prioritizes remediation based on organizational context and business impact.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered log analysis to automatically correlate logs across services and identify patterns during incidents.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI analysis of distributed traces, database queries, and resource utilization to identify performance bottlenecks.
Development & engineering
AI-powered code analysis that identifies technical debt and suggests prioritization based on impact.
Development & engineering
AI to automatically generate and update architecture diagrams by analyzing code repositories and configurations.
Knowledge & process management
AI to automatically generate tickets from incidents, performance issues, and security findings with context.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered systems that analyze multiple data sources to predict and automatically prevent incidents.
Development & engineering
AI to analyze API changes and predict compatibility issues before they impact dependent services.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered systems that automatically detect and resolve common infrastructure issues.
Security & compliance
AI to automatically generate compliance reports by analyzing platform configurations, access logs, and security controls.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI that analyzes code changes, infrastructure modifications, and system dependencies to predict change impact.
Development & engineering
AI-powered CLI assistants that provide contextual help and suggest commands based on user intent.
Security & compliance
AI that continuously assesses compliance posture and generates gap analyses for regulatory frameworks.
Knowledge & process management
AI-powered analytics that track developer interactions with platform services to identify pain points.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI to automatically collect and analyze deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI to continuously monitor infrastructure state and automatically detect and remediate configuration drift.
Security & compliance
AI-powered behavioral analysis to identify unusual access patterns and potential insider threats.
Security & compliance
AI-powered policy engines that automatically check all changes against organizational standards.
Knowledge & process management
AI to analyze incident data and automatically generate post-mortem templates with timeline reconstruction.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI-powered capacity planning that predicts future infrastructure needs and recommends scaling actions.
Security & compliance
AI to automatically map security controls to regulatory frameworks and assess compliance posture.
Operations & Infrastructure
AI to automatically map service dependencies by analyzing code, configuration files, and runtime behavior.
Knowledge & process management
AI that learns from team actions to identify automation opportunities and eventually automate routine tasks.
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