The challenge of multi-cloud discovery
That’s the reality of modern cloud sprawl. Multi-cloud adoption brought speed, redundancy, and choice. It also brought hidden workloads, unmanaged costs, and unknown attack surfaces. Discovery in a multi-cloud world is no longer optional—it’s the first job that must be done before any optimization, security, or innovation can happen.
The challenge of multi-cloud discovery
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes clusters, SaaS platforms—each with its own APIs, permissions, and naming conventions. Teams spin up resources in minutes and forget them in hours. Without complete visibility, billing surprises hit at the end of the month and blind spots become entry points for breaches. Manual spreadsheets don’t work when your infrastructure changes every second. CMDBs lag behind. Logging tools only see what they’re connected to. True discovery means real-time, continuous mapping across every cloud boundary.
What real discovery looks like
A complete inventory of every asset—compute, storage, databases, functions, services—across all clouds, all regions, all accounts. The ability to detect shadow IT and rogue deployments. The context to link each resource to its owner, purpose, and cost center. Discovery should be automatic. It should integrate with identity systems, pull live metadata, and alert when something new appears. It should not require writing scripts or chasing down API keys from other teams.
Why multi-cloud discovery matters for scale
Without a living map, automation fails. IaC pipelines drift from reality. Observability tools miss entire workloads. Compliance checks become guesswork. Security teams waste time chasing ghosts. Multi-cloud discovery aligns engineering, ops, finance, and security. Every decision from scaling down unused clusters to locking down exposed buckets depends on the accuracy of the map.
The next step
Multi-cloud is here to stay. The winners will be teams who can see everything, instantly, without breaking flow. Discovery is where control starts.
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