Cloud Custodian
The Path to a Well Managed Cloud
Cloud Custodian is an open-source cloud management tool that lets users define policy rules in a YAML DSL to filter, tag, and apply actions to cloud resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It supports real-time compliance enforcement, cost optimization through off-hours scheduling, and governance-as-code integration with Terraform. It is a CNCF Incubating Project released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Users define policies in a simple YAML DSL that Cloud Custodian evaluates against cloud resources, applying filtering, tagging, and remediation actions in real-time or on a schedule.
DevOps engineers and cloud infrastructure teams
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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