Product News
Announcing CloudQuery Alerts
CloudQuery alerts automatically notify your team when queries find infrastructure violations. Turn compliance checks into real-time notifications.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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