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Using the AI Chat Assistant

Ask Questions About Your Infrastructure in Plain English Cloudeval’s AI Chat assistant understands your infrastructure and can answer questions, provide insights, and help you optimize your cloud setup.

Getting Started

Opening the Chat

  1. Click the chat icon in the bottom right corner
  2. Or press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac)
  3. The chat panel opens

Your First Question

Try asking:
Show me all resources with public access
The AI will:
  1. Analyze your infrastructure
  2. Identify public resources
  3. Highlight them in the diagram
  4. Provide a detailed response

Common Use Cases

Security Questions

"Find all resources without encryption"
"Show me publicly accessible storage buckets"
"Which resources have overly permissive IAM policies?"
"Identify security vulnerabilities in my VPC"

Cost Questions

"What's my current AWS spending?"
"Find underutilized EC2 instances"
"Show me the most expensive resources"
"Recommend cost optimizations"

Architecture Questions

"Explain the network topology of my VPC"
"Show me all resources connected to this database"
"What's the dependency chain for this application?"
"Visualize the data flow in my architecture"

Troubleshooting

"Why is this resource not accessible?"
"Find all resources in this region"
"Show me resources with errors"
"What changed in the last 24 hours?"

Advanced Features

Context Awareness

The AI understands:
  • Your current diagram view
  • Selected resources
  • Recent changes
  • Your cloud provider

Follow-up Questions

Ask follow-ups without repeating context:
User: "Show me all databases"
AI: [Lists databases]
User: "Which ones are encrypted?"
AI: [Filters to encrypted databases]

Diagram Interaction

The AI can:
  • Highlight resources in the diagram
  • Zoom to specific areas
  • Filter the view
  • Create new diagrams

Tips for Best Results

Be Specific

Bad: “Tell me about my infrastructure”
Good: “Show me all EC2 instances in us-east-1”

Use Natural Language

You don’t need special syntax:
  • “Find resources without tags”
  • “What’s the cost of my S3 buckets?”
  • “Show me the network flow”

Ask Follow-ups

Build on previous answers:
  1. “Show me all databases”
  2. “Which ones are public?”
  3. “What’s the cost of the public ones?”

Example Conversations

Security Audit

You: Find all publicly accessible resources

AI: I found 3 publicly accessible resources:
    - S3 bucket: example-public-bucket
    - EC2 instance: web-server-01
    - RDS database: public-db
    
    Would you like me to show security recommendations?

You: Yes, and highlight them in the diagram

AI: [Highlights resources and shows recommendations]

Cost Optimization

You: What's my current AWS spending?

AI: Your current monthly AWS spending is $2,450:
    - EC2 instances: $1,200 (49%)
    - RDS databases: $800 (33%)
    - S3 storage: $300 (12%)
    - Other: $150 (6%)
    
    I found 5 underutilized instances that could save $400/month.

You: Show me those instances

AI: [Highlights underutilized instances]

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Ctrl+K / Cmd+K: Open chat
  • Esc: Close chat
  • Enter: Send message
  • Shift+Enter: New line
  • : Previous message
  • : Next message

Limitations

The AI Chat:
  • Can read your infrastructure
  • Can analyze and provide insights
  • Can highlight resources
  • Cannot modify your infrastructure
  • Cannot access your data
  • Cannot make changes to resources

Privacy & Security

  • All queries processed securely
  • No data stored permanently
  • Conversations encrypted
  • No sharing with third parties

Next Steps


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