Company
Date Published
Author
Rohit Reddy
Word count
1716
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Harness Cloud Asset Governance is a tool designed to optimize cloud resource management by automating the elimination of cloud waste, ensuring compliance, and facilitating innovation. Built on top of the open-source Cloud Custodian, it addresses common challenges such as lack of a GUI, reporting, and security governance, and operational overhead. By offering preconfigured governance-as-code rules and a natural language interface powered by Harness AI, it simplifies policy creation and implementation, enhancing visibility into cloud spend and efficiency. The platform supports all major cloud providers and provides out-of-the-box policies to optimize resources and set guardrails. Users have reported significant cost savings and improved governance, with features like "Dry Run" for testing rules and comprehensive action logs supporting informed decision-making.