AI
Product News
Introducing the CloudQuery Platform AI Assistant
CloudQuery's new AI Assistant lets you ask questions about your cloud infrastructure in plain English - no SQL required.
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About
Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Data Engineer and he empowers developers to think creatively when building real-time data applications through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need.
Joe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one of the largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid TikToker and Tweeter.
AWS
Security
Tutorials
Finding AWS Unrestricted Outbound Access in 2026: EC2, Lambda, and Beyond
Find EC2, Lambda, and ECS Fargate resources with unrestricted outbound access in AWS using SQL. Why egress controls still break attack chains in 2026.
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AWS
Security
Tutorials
AWS IAM Identity Center with Google Workspace as an IdP: 2026 Step-by-Step Guide
Set up AWS IAM Identity Center with Google Workspace: SAML authentication, SCIM user provisioning, and group sync with CLI or ssosync. Updated for 2026.
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Best Practices
CMDB
Cloud Infrastructure
Comparisons
Cloud CMDB vs Traditional CMDB: A 2026 Comparison
Traditional CMDBs fail 70-80% (Gartner) due to agent-based discovery and rigid ITIL models. Cloud CMDBs use APIs and SQL.
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GCP
Security
Tutorials
Creating Cross-Project Service Accounts in GCP (Console + gcloud CLI)
Create a GCP service account that reads across all your projects with one credential. Covers gcloud CLI, org-level vs.
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AWS
Best Practices
Security
AWS CIS Benchmark in 2026: Automated Compliance with SQL-Based Policies
AWS CIS Benchmark hit v3.0 in 2024 with 40+ controls. Run automated compliance checks using SQL policies with exception management and multi-account views.
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CloudQuery News
Introducing CloudQuery Insights: Cloud Intelligence That Connects the Dots
CloudQuery Insights automatically surfaces connected signals across your cloud inventory: security findings, cost data, policy violations, and audit trails.
Joe Karlsson •
AWS
Cloud Infrastructure
Security
Tutorials
Integrate AbuseIPDB Threat Intelligence with CloudQuery
Enrich your cloud asset inventory with AbuseIPDB threat intelligence to identify public cloud IPs with known abuse reports.
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