AWS and Cloudanix team co-authored this blog: Real-Time Threat and Anomaly Detection for Workloads on AWS
Cloud inventory · graph-native

Your inventory isn't a list.
It's the foundation everything else sits on.

600+ resource types across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes and the SaaS your cloud touches — discovered continuously, related as a graph, queryable in plain English. Posture, identity, detection and compliance all read from the same graph, so one query gives you the same answer everywhere.

✓ Continuous (not point-in-time) ✓ AWS · Azure · GCP · OCI · DO · K8s · SaaS ✓ Query in plain English
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AWS14,823
Azure6,291
GCP3,147
K8s892
  1. +ec2.Instance · prod / us-east-1 · i-0a3f…
  2. +rds.DBInstance · prod / us-east-1 · pii-cluster-3
  3. +iam.Role · CrossAccount-DataLakeReader
  4. +s3.Bucket · prod-customer-pii-replica
  5. +k8s.ServiceAccount · payments / publish-only
  6. +azure.KeyVault · vault-prod-eu-central · secret-rotation-on
  7. +github.Repository · org/payments-svc · branch-protect-on
3 relationships inferred 1 attack-path candidate
Continuous discovery via cloud event streams · full reconciliation every 6h.
Why this matters

Most security mistakes start as an inventory mistake.

Four ways inventory failure becomes the root cause.

"We didn't know it existed"

The bucket nobody owns, the lambda function from a 2022 POC still running, the IAM role created for a vendor offboarded a year ago. If inventory is point-in-time, these are how you find out about them — by being breached.

"We thought it was internal"

An RDS instance is in a private subnet — but the role attached to the bastion can reach it, and the bastion has a public IP. Without relationships, the inventory says "private." The graph says "reachable."

"We can't search it"

"Show me every S3 bucket in production with public-read on, tagged owner=fintech, not encrypted with CMK." Flat-list inventory can't answer this. A graph + query language can.

"Compliance says we have it; production says we don't"

A SOC 2 control on EBS encryption shows green because Config says yes. Reality: 14 EBS volumes spun up via Terraform last week missed the policy. Continuous inventory catches the drift; periodic doesn't.

Coverage

600+ resource types across the surface your cloud actually touches.

Public clouds

AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud · Oracle Cloud · DigitalOcean. Same product, same console, same query language across all five.

Kubernetes

EKS · AKS · GKE · self-managed · OpenShift. Workloads, namespaces, service accounts, network policies, RBAC bindings — all in-graph.

Identity providers

Okta · Microsoft Entra · Google Workspace · AWS IAM Identity Center · Auth0. Users, groups, SAML / OIDC bindings, MFA posture.

Code & CI

GitHub · GitLab · Bitbucket · Jenkins · CircleCI · GitHub Actions · Argo · Spinnaker. Repos, branches, deploy keys, OIDC bindings.

Data & databases

RDS · Aurora · Cosmos · Cloud SQL · Snowflake · BigQuery · Redshift · DynamoDB. Schemas, tables, classifications, query patterns.

Network & CDN

VPCs · subnets · security groups · NACLs · NLBs / ALBs · Cloudflare · Cloudfront · Akamai. Reachability calculated end-to-end.

How it works

Continuous discovery, relationship graph, plain-English query.

01

Continuous discovery

For each connected account, Cloudanix subscribes to cloud event streams (CloudTrail / Azure Activity Log / GCP Audit Log) and processes resource-change events near-real-time. A periodic full reconciliation (every 6 hours by default) catches anything event streams miss — so inventory is never stale by more than that window.

02

Relationship graph

Every resource is connected to the resources it relates to — the EC2 to its security group, the SG to its rules, the rules to the source IP ranges, the IP ranges to the public internet or the VPC peering. Attack path traversal is a graph query, not a script.

03

Tag, classify, enrich

Resources are enriched with ownership (from tags + IdP group memberships), environment (prod/staging/dev), cost attribution (where available from cost tags), compliance scope, data classification (where DSPM is enabled), and risk score. Untagged orphans are surfaced as their own work item.

04

Query in plain English

Two surfaces: Dynamic Query Builder for visual filtering ("show me S3 buckets where public_read = true AND environment = prod"), and Text2SQL for natural-language questions ("which RDS instances created in the last 7 days have no encryption?").

What Our Users Are Saying

Customer Reviews

Cloudanix is trusted by security leaders worldwide to deliver proactive, reliable, and cutting-edge cloud security.

One day, I changed the password of a root account, and my CTO called me within less than a minute to confirm if I did so. I was not expecting a reaction this quick. He told me Cloudanix alerted him of this password change and that he wanted to confirm as it was a critical security notification. I couldn't believe it!

Ritesh Agarwal
Ritesh Agarwal
CEO, Airgap Networks

Compliance is one way of staying secure, but what I want is the ability to go deeper and attain 'true security.' Cloudanix provides us the capability to do so.

Vishal Madan
Vishal Madan
Head of Engineering, iMocha

Cloudanix is building for the future of the cloud, which makes the product all the more desirable.

Ritesh Agarwal
Ritesh Agarwal
CEO, Airgap Networks

Cloudanix gave us the visibility we were missing. Being able to move from permanent access to a robust Just-In-Time (JIT) workflow has fundamentally changed our security posture without slowing down our engineering velocity.

Pavan Kumar Lekkala
Pavan Kumar Lekkala
SRE Lead, HugoHub

We are excited to leverage Cloudanix's comprehensive multi-cloud DevSecOps solution to secure our production workloads on AWS. Cloudanix has demonstrated that it can solve many challenges that DevSecOps teams face while continually adding new features such as SOC2 compliance and drift detection.

Satish Mohan
Satish Mohan
Co-founder & CTO, Airgap Networks

Managing third-party partner access was once a major concern for our security posture. With Cloudanix JIT Cloud, we've effectively achieved zero third-party risk. We can now grant access confidently, knowing that it is temporary, audited, and automatically revoked, resulting in a 100% reduction in our privileged access exposure.

Okesh Badhiye
Okesh Badhiye
Head of Technical Engineering, Finfinity

The snooze feature and responsible alerts have helped us save time and prioritize what to tackle first.

Satish Mohan
Satish Mohan
Co-founder & CTO, Airgap Networks

Implementing Cloudanix JIT internally allowed us to practice what we preach. By eliminating permanent access to our own clouds and databases, we've neutralized the risk of standing privileges, ensuring our own 'keys to the kingdom' are never left exposed.

Girish Manghnani
Girish Manghnani
Managing Partner, Tech Inspira

The problem with permissions is a lot of times, the gaps are left open due to oversights from inside the organization itself. With Cloudanix's CIEM, we get a complete view of user permissions and access. This enables us to update the permissions, reducing the attack surface.

Nilesh Pethani
Nilesh Pethani
Application Architect, iMocha

In the world of Fintech, trust is our currency. Cloudanix provided the frictionless visibility we needed to secure our EKS workloads across AWS, ensuring we stay audit-ready for SOC2 and GDPR without slowing down our engineering velocity.

Amol Naik
Amol Naik
Head of Security & Infrastructure, HugoHub

Cloudanix delivered value within 5 minutes of onboarding. Continuous monitoring, timely detection, and excellent documentation helped us attain a great cloud security posture.

Divyanshu Shukla
Senior DevSecOps, Meesho

Technology strategies and business strategies are in a state of constant change which includes centralization and decentralization of responsibilities. Regardless of strategic shift, we still have intellectual property to protect. Cloudanix are critical partners for us in our public cloud security posture across our three cloud providers.

Jerry Locke
Jerry Locke
Senior Director Global Solutions Engineering, Eversana

Cloudanix has been amazing. They opened up a common Slack channel with us — and it feels like we are talking to our own team and getting things done with Cloud security. The support team is always available, friendly, helpful, and ready to go out of their way.

Satish Mohan
Satish Mohan
CTO, Airgap Networks

Beyond just access management, Cloudanix CSPM has given us a unified view of our AWS environment. The real-time alerting and anomaly detection allow us to prevent any untoward activity before it happens, which is critical for a marketplace connecting 50+ financial institutions.

Okesh Badhiye
Okesh Badhiye
Head of Technical Engineering, Finfinity

For a Fintech company, data is our most valuable — and most sensitive — asset. Cloudanix DAM hasn't just improved our visibility; it has given us control. The ability to mask data and prevent unauthorized queries in real-time is a game-changer for our compliance and customer trust.

Jiten Gala
Jiten Gala
President Engineering and Product, Kapittx

Our clients, especially in the Middle East financial sector, demand absolute accountability. Cloudanix JIT Cloud has been a competitive differentiator for us, allowing us to provide secure, governed access to customer accounts that meet their strictest audit and compliance requirements.

Girish Manghnani
Girish Manghnani
Managing Partner, Tech Inspira

Cloudanix is always on my team's lips because of its exceptional support. Be it a small or big query, Cloudanix has gone above and beyond to resolve them. This one's a keeper for us.

Sujit Karpe
Sujit Karpe
CTO, iMocha

For a long-lasting partnership, great support goes a long way. Cloudanix has delivered exceptional support whenever required. Their edge is their team is always ready to go beyond to solve any issues that we have. This speaks volumes about the culture at Cloudanix.

Akash Maheshwari
Akash Maheshwari
Co-founder, MoveInSync

Beyond the technology, Cloudanix feels like an extension of our own team. Their willingness to stand up a dedicated Middle East tenant for us and provide exceptional support at a sensible price makes them a long-term partner for Hugosave.

Surya Tamada
Surya Tamada
CTO, HugoHub

The real-time notifications that Cloudanix provides are a real lifesaver. Their adaptive notifications ensure that my team stays productive and doesn't get interrupted all the time.

Digvijay Singh
Staff Security Engineer, Meesho

The whole point in technological evolution is to help improve the world we live in. We must protect that and to do so requires an effective and efficient security strategy. The Cloudanix team helped make our public cloud security posture management strategy a reality. The symbiotic relationship we have allows for a continuous feedback loop which is how business should operate.

Larry Wheat
Larry Wheat
Staff Solutions Engineer, Eversana
Common questions

Cloud inventory, asked plainly.

Is Cloudanix a cloud CMDB / asset management tool?

Inventory is one of the things Cloudanix does, but we're not a CMDB. A CMDB is a system of record optimised for ITSM workflows (ticket linking, change management, lifecycle). Cloudanix's inventory is optimised for security workflows — relationships, attack paths, identity-context, compliance scope. If you have a CMDB (ServiceNow, etc.), Cloudanix complements it: we push asset metadata into the CMDB, and reference CMDB ownership back. We don't replace the CMDB.

How is inventory in Cloudanix different from CSPM tools that list resources?

Most CSPM tools have a resource list — they need it to evaluate posture rules. The differences in Cloudanix: (1) it's a graph, not a list — relationships between resources, identities, networks, data are first-class. (2) It's continuous, not periodic — event streams catch changes near-real-time. (3) It's queryable in plain English, not just dashboard filters. (4) Posture, identity, detection and compliance all read from the same graph, so a question asked in one surface gives the same answer in another.

How fresh is the inventory?

Near-real-time for resource creation, modification, and deletion via cloud event streams (CloudTrail, Azure Activity Log, GCP Audit Log) — typically under a minute. A full reconciliation runs every 6 hours by default (configurable down to 1 hour on higher tiers) to catch anything the event streams might miss — IAM group memberships that change without an audit event, network ACL rule reordering, etc.

What about resources I don't want surfaced — sandbox accounts, decommissioned regions?

Two mechanisms. (1) Account-level inclusion / exclusion — you choose which connected accounts are inventoried at all. (2) Tag-based scoping inside an account — exclude resources matching a tag pattern (e.g., owner=throwaway, environment=lab). Excluded resources don't appear in inventory or in any downstream rule evaluation.

Does Cloudanix discover SaaS resources too?

The SaaS surface your cloud touches, yes — GitHub (orgs, repos, deploy keys), Okta / Entra (users, groups, OIDC apps), Slack (only configuration and channels touching CI/CD bots), and a growing set of others. We don't try to be a full SSPM today (that's Adaptive Shield's category) — we cover the SaaS that has cloud-administrative reach.

Can the inventory be exported to my SIEM / data lake?

Yes — full inventory snapshot or delta exports to S3 / GCS / Azure Blob in JSON or Parquet, on a schedule of your choice. From there, it lands in Splunk / Sumo / Snowflake / Databricks / Athena / BigQuery via whatever ingestion path you already operate. Webhook-on-change is also supported for event-driven downstream pipelines.

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