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CloudQuery Release Recap: April 2025
TL;DR:
April was a huge month for CloudQuery with four major releases! We launched:
- CloudQuery Reports for ready-to-use dashboards across your multi-cloud environment.
- AWS Cost and Usage Reports integration to break down your AWS bills.
- Custom Columns to enrich your inventory with team ownership and other context.
- Full-Text Search for instantly finding any resource during incidents.
What a month it's been at CloudQuery. We've been busy working on tons of new features and releases that'll make managing your cloud environments way less of a headache. Let's take a look at everything we've shipped this past month.
CloudQuery Reports #
We kicked off April with a huge launch, CloudQuery Reports. It’s our new command center for cloud governance. Reports take all that data you're already syncing from your cloud environments and package it into dashboards that actually make sense!
Why did we build this? Because:
- You shouldn't need to switch between five different consoles to see what's happening across your clouds
- You need actionable security insights without hiring a team of experts
- You're probably wasting money on resources nobody remembers owning
- You shouldn't need a PhD in SQL to answer basic questions about your infrastructure
Think of Reports as pre-built insights organized into categories that match real challenges:
Each report comes with its own set of SQL queries that you can open right in the SQL Console or copy to your favorite BI tool. That means that there's no more starting from scratch when building custom dashboards.
The best part? If you're already syncing data into CloudQuery, you can start using Reports right now. Just check the "Tips for using this report" section to see which integrations each report requires.
AWS Cost and Usage Reports Integration #
Just a week later, we released our brand-new AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) integration and Report. Trying to understand AWS bills can feel like decoding hieroglyphics, and this release was designed to fix that.
We fundamentally believe that cloud cost management is primarily an Engineering problem, not a Finance problem. The real drivers of cloud costs are engineering and architectural choices. Cost should be a core aspect of making intentional engineering decisions, right alongside performance, reliability, operability, observability, and security.
With the CloudQuery AWS Cost and Usage Report integration, you can:
- Query your cloud costs just like any other infrastructure data
- Link spending directly to the actual resources in your environment
- Build reports tailored to your business needs without spreadsheet gymnastics
- Bring cost data alongside security, compliance, and inventory data
- Identify forgotten resources that keep draining your budget month after month
Let's look at an example of how our customers are using this integration. Want to find your top 10 most expensive EC2 instances? Easy:
SELECT line_item_resource_id,
ROUND(SUM(line_item_unblended_cost), 2) AS total_cost
FROM cost_report_v2
WHERE line_item_product_code = 'AmazonEC2'
GROUP BY line_item_resource_id
ORDER BY total_cost DESC
LIMIT 10;This integration gets powerful when you combine your AWS cost and usage data with your infrastructure data.
Ready to take control of your AWS costs? Check out our AWS Cost and Usage Reports Integration documentation to get started today.
Custom Columns #
At the beginning of May, we introduced Custom Columns, which let you add any data you want directly into your CloudQuery asset inventory. No more VLOOKUPS in spreadsheets, no more custom scripts to join data across systems, and no more making everyone memorize naming conventions (that no one follows anyway).
Custom Columns help you surface critical information right next to your cloud assets. Instead of jumping between tools, you can now see it all in one place:
- Which team or project each resource belongs to
- How individual cloud resources contribute to your overall cloud budget
- Security and compliance status from external scanners
- Custom lifecycle information, like scheduled deletion dates
- Any other metadata that matters to your organization
Custom Columns does two simple things:
- Let's you define new columns in your Cloud Asset Inventory
- Gives you ways to populate those columns (UI or API)
The real power comes from automating column updates through the API. Some cool things early users have built:
- A script that pulls Datadog monitor data into CloudQuery to show which instances keep having alerts
- A column that converts inconsistent environment tags (prod, production, PROD) into a normalized environment field
- A custom security score calculated from internal vulnerability scanners
- A "scheduled deletion" column for instances flagged for cleanup
Custom Columns are ready to use now. Check out our documentation and our API docs for the full reference on integrating custom columns into your Cloud Asset Inventory.
Full-Text Search #
We launched full-text search to help you instantly find any resource across your entire cloud inventory. Instead of hunting through dozens of tables during incidents, you can type any string (IP address, hostname, security group ID, etc.) and immediately see all matching resources.
You know that feeling when you need to track down an IP address or a security group during an incident? The clock is ticking, and you're frantically searching through dozens of tables trying to remember which ones might contain what you're looking for.
We've all been there. And frankly, it's a problem that shouldn't exist in 2025.
Full-text search in CloudQuery lets you find any string across your entire inventory. Type in an IP address, hostname, security group ID, tag name—anything—and instantly see all resources that reference it.
The search works with exact matches, partial word matching (like finding "Kubernetes" when you search for "kube"), and you can combine searches with filters for more precision.
Full-text search isn't just about locating resources faster. It's about changing how you work with your cloud infrastructure:
- When alerts fire, immediately find affected resources
- Quickly locate resources that match specific compliance criteria
- Discover unexpected connections between resources
- Stop memorizing table structures and column names
The true impact of full-text search becomes clear when you use it with your own data. Current CloudQuery Platform users can access this feature immediately.
April Release Recap #
To recap, here's what we release this month:
CloudQuery Reports provides pre-built insights into your multi-cloud environment with ready-to-use dashboards for security, compliance, cost management, and operations.
AWS Cost Usage Reports Integration connects cost data with infrastructure data, helping teams identify expensive resources, attribute costs, and understand the financial impact of security issues.
Custom Columns lets you add any data you want (team ownership, costs, security scores) directly into your CloudQuery asset inventory with no more jumping between tools or exporting to spreadsheets.
Full-Text Search makes it easy to instantly find any resource across your entire cloud inventory by typing any string (IP address, hostname, security group ID, etc.) and immediately seeing all matching resources.
What's Coming Next? #
We're just getting started! Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the coming weeks. Our team is working hard on new integrations and features to make cloud management even easier.
Want to see these features in action? Schedule a demo with our team today, and we'll show you how CloudQuery can transform your cloud visibility.
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