The Cloud Operations Playbook
Close the Gap Between What You Think You Know and What's Actually Running
89% of multi-cloud organizations can't answer basic questions about their own infrastructure. Every day that gap stays open, you're paying for it in delayed security investigations, compliance scrambles, and cloud waste that compounds quarter after quarter.
This isn't a visibility problem you can solve with another dashboard. It's an operational gap, and it's costing engineering teams 45 minutes per security alert, $47K-$90K per engineer per year in toil, and weeks of prep time before every audit.
What You'll Learn in This Guide
Measure the Gap
- Score your team's cloud operations maturity across five capability areas
- Quantify the hidden costs of manual infrastructure investigation
- Calculate your organization's specific cloud waste exposure
Build a Visibility-First Governance Model
- Design a single source of truth for cloud infrastructure data across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Implement continuous governance that replaces point-in-time audits
- Write SQL-based policies that engineering teams actually maintain
Implement with SQL
- Cloud security posture queries you can run today
- Continuous compliance monitoring without dedicated GRC tools
- Build an AI-ready cloud data layer for the next generation of operations
Execute the 90-Day Roadmap
- Week-by-week implementation plan from assessment through optimization
- Metrics and KPIs that show measurable progress to leadership
- A leadership scorecard template for ongoing reporting
Who This Guide Is For
- Platform Engineers building internal cloud infrastructure tooling
- Security Teams investigating cross-cloud alerts and maintaining posture
- Engineering Managers responsible for cloud operations efficiency
- DevOps and SRE Teams dealing with multi-cloud sprawl and compliance
- Technical Leaders making the case for cloud operations investment
Ready to close the cloud operations gap? Talk to our team about how CloudQuery helps engineering teams get answers from their cloud infrastructure in minutes, not days.
What you'll learn
Measure Your Cloud Operations Gap
Score your team across five capability areas and quantify the hidden costs of manual cloud infrastructure investigation.
Build Visibility-First Governance
Design a single source of truth for infrastructure data across AWS, Azure, and GCP with SQL-based policies teams actually maintain.
Execute the 90-Day Roadmap
Follow a week-by-week plan from assessment through optimization, with metrics and KPIs that show measurable progress to leadership.
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