Asset discovery | Firemind
Asset discovery

Every account. Every resource.Catalogued and cross-referenced.

A model of the whole estate, checked against best practice as it is built.

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Every region, every enabled service
Read-only
Cross-referenced passes
Tagging remediation as code
First model in days
The problem

Nobody can read twenty thousand resources continuously, so estates drift quietly for years while the tooling reports healthy.

The gaps are not in the dashboards. They are between them.

The IT Operations Engine builds a model of the whole estate and cross-references independent passes against each other. That is how the things dashboards miss come to light. A backup plan reporting success against a vault with no recovery points, or a patch schedule that has never run because no server carries the label it looks for.

What a real inventory has to do

  • Cover every region and every enabled service, not just the ones someone remembered to onboard
  • Cross-reference independent passes, so contradictions between tools surface rather than cancel out
  • Check each resource against best practice as it is discovered, not in a separate later exercise
  • Verify orphaned resources individually before anyone acts on them
  • Re-run on a schedule, so new accounts and new resources appear in the next snapshot
What we do

Build the model, then cross-reference it against itself.

The engine inventories AWS, Azure and Google Cloud estates across every region and every enabled service, building a point-in-time model of what exists, how it is configured, and how it has changed. Discovery itself changes nothing. What it makes possible is the tagging work, and the cleanup that follows under your authority model.

AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Point-in-time model
Tagging remediation

Find, fix, keep green

    • Find - The engine inventories AWS, Azure and Google Cloud estates across every region and every enabled service, building a point-in-time model of what exists, how it is configured, and how it has changed. Each resource is checked against built-in best-practice rules as it is discovered. Orphaned resources, unattached volumes and snapshots nobody has looked at in years are identified and verified individually.
    • Fix - Discovery itself changes nothing. It makes the tagging work possible. The engine reads your tagging standard, checks every resource against it, and raises the pull request that brings the estate into line, with placeholders where a value cannot be inferred. Cleanup of verified orphans follows under your authority model.
    • Keep green - Discovery re-runs on a schedule. New resources appear in the next snapshot. Each new account is enrolled as it comes into scope.

Want to see what is actually in the estate?

Read-only access to the accounts in scope is enough. A first model is usually available within days.

Scope a pilot →
How it starts

Read-only access. A first model within days.

Discovery changes nothing in the estate. It gives you the position everything else starts from.

  • Read-only access

    We take read-only access to the accounts in scope. A first model of the estate is usually available within days.

    • Every region, every enabled service
    • Compute, storage, databases, networking, identity and more
    • Nothing in the estate is changed
  • Cross-reference and verify

    Independent passes are cross-referenced against each other, so contradictions surface. Orphaned resources are verified individually rather than assumed.

    • Best-practice rules applied as each resource is discovered
    • Backup plans checked against actual recovery points
    • Orphans verified one by one before anything is proposed
  • Tagging brought into line

    The engine reads your tagging standard, checks every resource against it, and raises the pull request that closes the gap, with placeholders where a value cannot be inferred.

    • Your standard, not a generic one
    • Pull request, reviewable in full
    • Cleanup of verified orphans under your authority model
What stays with you

Ownership comes from tags.

If your tagging standard is not enforced, the first thing we surface is exactly that, and how far the estate is from meeting it.

You gain:

  • Compute, storage, databases, networking, identity roles, serverless, containers, messaging, secrets and monitoring are covered across all three clouds. The list grows with each release.
  • The engine can tell you who owns a resource only if a tag says so. Where ownership is missing, it tells you where.
  • Discovery re-runs on a schedule, and each new account is enrolled as it comes into scope.

FAQ

Questions.

Compute, storage, databases, networking, identity roles, serverless, containers, messaging, secrets and monitoring across all three clouds. The list grows with each release.

Only if a tag says so. Where ownership is missing, the engine tells you where, and the tagging remediation is the fix.

Start with read-only access to the accounts in scope.

A first model of the estate is usually available within days. Nothing is changed, and the tagging work only starts once you have seen where the gaps are.

Your benefits:

  • Three clouds - AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, every region.
  • Read-only - discovery changes nothing in the estate.
  • Cross-referenced - so the gaps between dashboards come to light.
  • Days, not quarters - to a first model of the estate.

What happens next?

Talk.

A focused discussion about the estate and which accounts are in scope.

Discover.

Read-only access, and a first model of the estate within days.

Tag.

Your tagging standard applied as a pull request, then cleanup under your authority model.

No obligation. Just a focused discussion about what is in your estate.

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