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Gaining visibility — and, ultimately, insights — into enterprise cloud assets is growing ever more challenging.
Cloud estates are sprawling and fragmented, and inventory capabilities in existing tools can be narrow and unintuitive, separating elements like cost and security data into disconnected platforms with limited flexibility.
Cloud governance company CloudQuery is positioning itself to address this problem by centralizing cloud assets, security metadata and cost in one place, and making it accessible through easy, built-in SQL queries and reports. The company is taking a developer-first approach to cloud governance, pulling data from 60-plus sources — including AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta and Wiz — into a single, queryable data warehouse.
The company is now announcing a $16 million funding round led by Partech to further scale its approach to cloud visibility.
“The biggest challenge with existing tools is that they’re siloed — one for security, one for cost, one for asset inventory — making it hard to get a unified view across domains,” CQ founder Yevgeny Pats told VentureBeat. “Even simple questions like ‘What EBS volume is attached to an EC2 that is turned off? are hard to answer without stitching together multiple tools.”
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CloudQuery under the hood
CloudQuery uses two key technologies under the hood: Data warehouse and open-source database ClickHouse and the Apache Arrow framework for developing data analytics applications.
This high-performance plugin architecture built in Go connects directly to APIs like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and many other platforms, pulling in configuration, security and cost metadata. The platform continuously syncs data from dozens of cloud providers and services into a normalized, centralized asset inventory.
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