Cloud Asset Inventory
Comparisons
CloudQuery vs. Cloud Asset Inventory Tools
Compare CloudQuery vs Steampipe, AWS Config, and other cloud asset inventory tools. Technical analysis for platform engineers choosing multi-cloud solutions.
Joe Karlsson •
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CloudQuery News
CloudQuery announces $16M funding round to Solve Enterprise Cloud Visibility
CloudQuery announces $16M funding round after 4x revenue growth and major Fortune 500 wins, setting it up for continued growth and cloud asset inventory innovation.
CloudQuery Team •
Cloud Asset Inventory
Engineering
How to Make Your Internal Developer Portal Actually Useful
A fresh asset inventory is the foundation of successful developer portals. Learn how organizations achieve 224% ROI, reduce onboarding by 67%, and save millions through inventory-driven Backstage implementations with real case studies from Spotify, Toyota, and financial services.
Joe Karlsson •
Product News
Announcing the AWS Secrets Report
Track unrotated AWS secrets, find unused credentials, and secure your cloud infrastructure with CloudQuery's new AWS Secrets Report.
Joe Karlsson •
Governance
Cloud Centers of Excellence (Part 1): Building Effective Cloud Governance Through Strategic Organization
Discover how to build a successful Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) to drive cloud governance, security, and innovation across your enterprise. Learn key structures, roles, and strategies in Part 1 of our 5-part implementation series.
Joe Karlsson •
Governance
Cloud Centers of Excellence (Part 2): Governance, Security, and Compliance in CCOEs
Who actually owns cloud policy? We break down how real CCOEs manage governance, enforce security without compromising velocity, and keep regulators at bay. We share what works and what quietly fails, inside enterprises handling sensitive workloads.
Joe Karlsson •
Governance
Cloud Centers of Excellence (Part 3): FinOps, Cost Management, and Real-World Case Studies
Cloud costs aren’t just a budgeting issue, they’re a systems problem. In Part 3, we unpack how mature CCOEs adopt FinOps practices to track every dollar, cut waste by up to 40%, and drive shared accountability across teams. Real examples from banks and enterprises show how this actually plays out.
Joe Karlsson •
Governance
Cloud Centers of Excellence (Part 4): Implementation Best Practices and Common Pitfalls
Building a Cloud CoE sounds great, until it stalls in politics, endless docs, or half-baked tooling. Part 4 provides a battle-tested roadmap: what to build first, what to skip, how to avoid the ivory tower trap, and how real organizations keep theirs alive past year one.
Joe Karlsson •