Observability · Multi-Cloud
Datadog
Runs primarily on AWS with significant GCP presence; ingests trillions of points/day through Kafka into Cassandra and custom time-series stores. Bits AI / Watchdog use in-house anomaly ML plus LLMs.
Foundation proximity: Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Foundational models & how they consume them
PrimaryClaude· AWS Bedrock · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Cloud & datastore
Multi-CloudPostgreSQLCassandraKafkaElasticsearchCompliance
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FAQ
Does Datadog use a foundational AI model?
Datadog uses Claude (Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)).
What cloud does Datadog run on?
Datadog runs on Multi-Cloud.
What database does Datadog use?
Datadog uses PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
How close does Datadog run to the foundational model?
Datadog is Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) — further out, trading control for convenience.
Sources
datadoghq.com ↗Also on the map
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