Fortem

Fortem is the control plane for teams managing 10+ AWS ECS Fargate environments. When a platform team hits 10 environments — dev, QA, staging, demo, sandbox — the DIY approach breaks. AWS Console is too dangerous to hand to developers. Terraform provisions infrastructure but doesn't help with day-two operations. CloudWatch shows metrics but not per-environment costs. Nobody knows which environments are still in use and which were spun up for a hackathon six months ago. Fortem replaces this entire stack with one console. Platform engineers see every environment across every account and region — status, services, databases, CI/CD branches, schedule, live cost — in a single view. Try it on your own infrastructure first. Fortem Fleet Audit is a free, downloadable .md skill file that runs in any AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode). It connects to your AWS account with read-only credentials, scans your ECS fleet in 5 minutes, and generates a real fleet report with your actual costs — nothing leaves your machine. No signup required. Environment scheduling stops non-production environments outside business hours and restarts them before the team arrives. Most teams cut dev/staging compute spend by 65–77% in the first month. Scheduling alone eliminates the single largest AWS cost driver for growing teams: idle compute. Environment cloning lets you copy any environment — all 18 services, 4 databases, networking, env vars — to any region in seconds. QA needs a clone of EU production for compliance testing? One click, not a day of Terraform scripting. AI diagnostics read CloudWatch logs when a task fails, check the task definition, verify IAM permissions, and propose a specific fix in under 8 seconds. The engineer approves. Fortem applies it. Developer self-service with RBAC means developers can restart, redeploy, and view logs for environments they own — without accessing production. No more platform engineer as single point of failure for staging ops. Fortem was built by platform engineers who managed 100+ ECS clusters at a regulated fintech. It runs as a SaaS control plane with an enterprise self-hosted option for air-gapped environments. SOC 2 Type II audit in progress. Available on AWS Marketplace — pay via your AWS bill using committed spend. Pricing: Starter $790/mo (up to 20 environments), Scale $2,490/mo (up to 80 environments), Enterprise custom. Per-environment pricing — not per-service. Your microservices stack shouldn't cost 4× more than a monolith.

Fortem audits and optimizes cloud environments, reducing costs by 60-70% without altering infrastructure code. It provides a comprehensive view of all ECS environments, identifying idle resources and potential savings. Users can manage operational costs effectively by scheduling environments and leveraging AI to diagnose and fix issues. Users copy a simple command to run a fleet audit using any CLI agent. The tool maps ECS environments, provides cost analyses, and suggests optimizations. It integrates with users' AWS accounts and operates within their data perimeter. Users can schedule environments, monitor statuses, and employ AI for diagnosing operational issues. Fortem is designed for developers and teams managing multiple ECS environments who want to optimize costs and operations without heavy DevOps involvement. It is especially beneficial for those needing a centralized view of their cloud resources and cost-saving opportunities.