It started with a failed audit.
A fast-scaling SaaS company was caught off guard—not because their firewall was weak or their IAM policies were loose—but because no one knew about a live database in an unused region. It wasn't in the diagrams. It wasn't tagged. But it was there, quietly incurring costs and quietly expanding their risk surface.
And they're not alone.
The Real Problem Isn't Always Misconfiguration—It's Visibility
In modern cloud environments, the biggest threat isn't always malicious actors. It's the resources you don't know exist.
Here's where most teams stumble:
Orphaned Resources from Legacy Projects
Dev and QA environments are spun up quickly—but rarely cleaned up. Over time, unused VMs, old load balancers, and forgotten S3 buckets stay alive, invisible to governance systems, yet costing real money.
Shadow IT in Action
Teams sometimes bypass provisioning policies to move faster—creating untracked databases, functions, or storage. These "shadow" assets often lack proper security protocols, leading to unmanaged vulnerabilities.
Siloed Monitoring Tools
When different teams use different tools across AWS, Azure, and GCP, your asset visibility is fragmented. There's no single source of truth—just a scattered mess of partial inventories.
When You Can't See It, You Can't Secure It
This lack of visibility does more than bloat budgets. It opens doors to:
- Security breaches due to unpatched, unmonitored assets
- Audit failures where controls were assumed but not enforced
- DevOps burnout from chasing asset inventories manually
- Unnecessary spend on resources no one remembers spinning up
And most painfully—realization comes after damage has occurred.
Cloudshot Solves the Visibility Crisis—Silently
Cloudshot's real-time cloud asset discovery engine connects to all your cloud accounts and immediately starts building a living map of your infrastructure. No agents, no guesswork.
Here's how it helps:
Unified, Always-Up-to-Date Inventory
Every VM, bucket, gateway, and subnet—automatically detected and logged. No more relying on manual tagging or spreadsheets.
Proactive Risk Detection
Cloudshot highlights misconfigured, redundant, or forgotten resources. You see what's not following policy before it becomes a ticket—or worse, a breach.
Cost and Risk Cleanup Made Easy
With auto-diff and stale asset alerts, teams reclaim budget and clean up technical debt without delay. Security, finance, and engineering finally align.
"Before Cloudshot, we thought we had everything mapped. Turns out we were missing 17% of our live resources."
— CTO, Fintech SaaS Company
You Can't Protect What You Can't See
If your current tooling isn't showing you everything across every cloud, you're gambling with security and wasting budget.