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Internal Developer Platform on AWS

Datadog

Rootly

OBSERVABILITY

PLANE

MONITORING AND LOGGING

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPER�CONTROL PLANE

Visual Studio Code

IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

Claude Code

PORTAL

Backstage

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

VERSION CONTROL

Score

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

Terraform

PLATFORM/�INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

GitHub

Kubecost

RESOURCE PLANE

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CI/CD PIPELINE

CD

CI

SECURITY

PLANE

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

NETWORK BASED SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

Amazon ECR

GitHub Actions

Humanitec Platform Orchestrator

Argo CD

Sourcegraph

HCP Vault

AWS IAM

OPA

Prisma Cloud

SentinelOne

Amazon Cloud Watch

Amazon EKS

RDS MySQL

Route 53

Amazon SQS

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Internal Developer Platform on GCP

Honeycomb

Rootly

OBSERVABILITY

PLANE

MONITORING AND LOGGING

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPER�CONTROL PLANE

Visual Studio Code

IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

Claude Code

PORTAL

Backstage

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

VERSION CONTROL

Score

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

Terraform

PLATFORM/�INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

GitLab

Flexera

RESOURCE PLANE

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CI/CD PIPELINE

CD

CI

SECURITY

PLANE

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

NETWORK BASED SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

Google Artifact Registry

GitLab

Humanitec Platform Orchestrator

Argo CD

SonarQube

Google Secrets�Manager

Google IAM

OPA

Cilium

Snyk

Google Cloud Monitoring

GKE

Google Cloud SQL

Cloud DNS

Pubsub

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Internal Developer Platform on Azure

Prometheus

PagerDuty

OBSERVABILITY

PLANE

MONITORING AND LOGGING

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPER�CONTROL PLANE

Visual Studio Code

IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

GitHub Copilot

PORTAL

Backstage

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

VERSION CONTROL

Score

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

Terraform

PLATFORM/�INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

GitHub

CloudZero

RESOURCE PLANE

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CI/CD PIPELINE

CD

CI

SECURITY

PLANE

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

NETWORK BASED SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

Azure Container Registry

GitHub Actions

Humanitec Platform Orchestrator

Flux CD

Codacy

Azure Key Vault

Okta

OPA

Cilium

Orca

Azure Monitor

Azure Kubernetes�Engine

Azure SQL

Azure DNS

Azure Service Bus

Grafana

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Internal Developer Platform on Multicloud

OBSERVABILITY

PLANE

DEVELOPER�CONTROL PLANE

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

VERSION CONTROL

Score

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

Terraform

PLATFORM/�INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

Github

RESOURCE PLANE B

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CI/CD PIPELINE

CD

CI

SECURITY

PLANE

Amazon ECR

Humanitec Platform Orchestrator

Argo CD

Workloads

Automations

Github�Actions

RESOURCE PLANE A

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

Amazon EKS

RDS MySQL

Route 53

Amazon SQS

Gateway

GKE

Cloud SQL

Cloud DNS

Pub/Sub

MONITORING AND LOGGING

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

PORTAL

Backstage

Prometheus

Grafana

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

NETWORK BASED SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

HCP Vault

Rootly

Kubecost

Amazon Cloud Watch

Sourcegraph

AWS IAM

OPA

Prisma Cloud

SentinelOne

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Internal Developer Platform

OBSERVABILITY

PLANE

MONITORING AND LOGGING

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPER�CONTROL PLANE

IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

PORTAL

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

VERSION CONTROL

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

PLATFORM/�INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

RESOURCE PLANE

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CI/CD PIPELINE

CD

CI

SECURITY

PLANE

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

NETWORK BASED SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

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Internal Developer Platform on Multicloud

OBSERVABILITY

PLANE

DEVELOPER�CONTROL PLANE

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

VERSION CONTROL

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

PLATFORM/�INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

RESOURCE PLANE B

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CI/CD PIPELINE

CD

CI

SECURITY

PLANE

RESOURCE PLANE A

COMPUTE

DATA

NETWORKING

SERVICES

Gateway

MONITORING AND LOGGING

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

PORTAL

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

NETWORK BASED SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

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Platform tools

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MONITORING & LOGGING

Sumo Logic

LogicMonitor

Jaeger

OBSERVABILITY

OBSERVABILITY

FINOPS

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

Datadog

Dynatrace

Honeycomb

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Flexera

Kubecost

Cloudzero

Rootly

PagerDuty

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Platform tools

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IDE/CDE

COPILOTS/AGENTS/LLM

PORTAL

VERSION CONTROL

SERVICES/APP SPECIFICATION

PLATFORM / INFRASTRUCTURE
AS CODE

DEVELOPER CONTROL PLANE

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

Visual Studio Code

LogicMonitor

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

CodeGPT

Claude Code

Backstage

Port

Cortex

Cycloid

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Score

KubeVela

Terraform

OpenTofu

Pulumi

Crossplane

Atlassian Compass

Configur8

LeanIX

OpsLevel

Humanitec Portal

Red Hat Developer Hub

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Circle CI

Travis CI

Azure DevOps

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Platform tools

CI

REGISTRY

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATOR

CD

INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY PLANE

INFRA CONTROL PLANE

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Harbor

Google Artifact Registry

Azure Container Registry

AWS ECR Registry

Humanitec

Kratix

Kusionstack

ArgoCD

Octopus Deploy

Flux CD

GitHub Actions

Spacelift

Radius

JFrog Artifactory

Quay

Codefresh

Atlantis

Terramate

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Platform tools

COMPUTE

CLUSTER MANAGEMENT

DATA

NETWORKING

RESOURCE PLANE

SERVICES

MESSAGING

Amazon EKS

Google Kubernetes Engine

Azure Kubernetes Engine

VMware vSphere

Nutanix

AWS Lambda

Red Hat OpenShift

VMware vSphere Kubernetes Services

Rancher

Kubermatic

Rafay

Amazon S3

PostgresSQL

RDS MySQL

Cloud SQL

Azure SQL

Redis

Mongo DB

OpenShift
Operator Hub

VMware Data Services Manager

Route 53

Cloudflare

Cloud DNS

Azure DNS

OpenShift SDN

VCF Networking (NSX)

Amazon
SQS

Amazon
Service Bus

Google 
Pub/Sub

Elasticsearch

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActivMQ

Ambassador

Capsule

Aiven

MariaDB

MySQL

Solo.io

Envoy

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Platform tools

CODE ANALYSIS

SECRETS

ID MANAGEMENT

POLICY CONTROL

SECURITY PLANE

NETWORK SECURITY

SECURITY SUITES

Sourcegraph

CodeScene

SonarQube

Codacy

HCP Vault

Azure Key Vault

Google Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS IAM

Google Cloud IAM

Okta

Keycloak

OPA

Styra

Nirmata

Prisma Cloud

Cilium

SentinelOne

Snyk

Orca Security