Posts Tagged policy-as-code

Do you know what cloud resources are running in your environment right now? Many organizations struggle to maintain visibility across their cloud estate, especially for resources created outside of infrastructure as code. Without complete visibility, you can’t enforce compliance, optimize costs, or identify security risks.

Today, we’re excited to announce new resources in the Pulumi Service Provider that solve this problem by enabling you to discover all cloud resources and enforce governance policies programmatically using infrastructure as code.

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Tags are the foundation of cloud governance, enabling cost allocation, ownership tracking, compliance reporting, and automation across your AWS infrastructure. Yet missing or inconsistent tags remain one of the most common governance challenges. Manual tag enforcement is error-prone, and discovering missing tags after deployment means your cost reports and compliance audits are already operating with incomplete data.

Today, we’re excited to announce a new pre-built policy pack created in partnership with AWS: AWS Organizations Tag Policies. This pack validates your infrastructure as code against tag policies configured in AWS Organizations, blocking deployments when required tags are missing and shifting tag governance left into your development workflow. Define your tag requirements once in AWS Organizations and enforce them consistently across all your Pulumi deployments.

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The era of AI-accelerated development has created a paradox: the faster developers move, the bigger the governance challenge becomes. For years, security and platform teams have worked to “shift left,” but the tools available have been incomplete. Most focus on detection, which is necessary but not sufficient. They identify thousands of policy violations across an organization’s infrastructure but leave teams with an overwhelming backlog and no scalable way to remediate it. This creates a persistent gap between finding a problem and fixing it. The result is an impossible choice between development velocity and organizational control, forcing leadership to slow down innovation to manage risk.

Today, we end that compromise.

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Audit Policy Scans for Pulumi Stacks is part of the next generation of Pulumi Policies. This capability uses policies to run compliance checks against the last successful deployment state of your stacks, providing continuous compliance monitoring without impacting your existing CI/CD workflows.

Until now, Pulumi’s preventative policies have served as a critical “shift-left” gate, blocking non-compliant changes during pulumi up. While essential, this created challenges for organizations wanting to roll out new governance across thousands of existing stacks. This new evaluation mode solves that problem, giving you a complete and continuous view of your IaC compliance posture without the friction.

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For platform and security teams, enabling robust cloud scanning often creates a new problem: an unmanageable firehose of policy alerts. Identifying a violation is only the first step. Without a system to manage the lifecycle of these findings, teams are quickly overwhelmed, leading to prioritization paralysis and a perpetually growing backlog.

The Policy Findings hub in Pulumi Cloud is the solution to this alert fatigue. It’s a purpose-built, collaborative workspace that turns a noisy list of violations into organized, actionable tasks. The hub brings clarity and structure to the compliance process, guiding teams from initial discovery to a verified fix.

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Achieving compliance with industry standards such as CIS, NIST, or PCI DSS is a foundational step for every organization. Yet for many teams, it’s often a manual, months-long process that involves interpreting controls, authoring custom policies, and validating configurations across multiple clouds. These challenges often slow progress toward a known and secure cloud state.

We’re changing that. To simplify this journey, Pulumi launched a new suite of pre-built compliance policy packs for CIS Controls v8.1, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, and PCI DSS v4.0.

These packs are your accelerator for the “Get Clean” journey, allowing you to enforce critical security and compliance baselines across your cloud infrastructure in minutes, not months.

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Welcome to the third post in our IDP Best Practices series, where we explore how to implement policy as code with Pulumi CrossGuard to create deployment guardrails that make self-service infrastructure both powerful and safe.

Platform engineering presents a fundamental tension: we want to enable developer velocity while maintaining security and compliance. Every platform team faces the same question: how do you give teams the freedom to deploy infrastructure quickly without compromising on safety, security, or organizational standards? The answer isn’t to choose between speed and safety, but rather to embrace automated guardrails powered by policy as code that make both possible simultaneously.

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Pulumi’s Infrastructure as Code has included a powerful policy engine from day one. Over the past year, we’ve been enhancing it significantly to provide stronger governance for modern cloud platforms. Until now, these capabilities were limited to our Business Critical tier. Today, we’re excited to announce that policy guardrails are now available to all Team and Enterprise customers. Alongside this, we’re launching a redesigned policy management experience and introducing out-of-the-box policy packs that make it easier than ever to secure, govern, and optimize your cloud environments—even when powered by AI agents like Pulumi Neo.

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In this post, we’re introducing a powerful new capability in Pulumi Insights that extends policy as code (PaC) beyond infrastructure as code to automatically govern all cloud resources in your environment. By unifying policy enforcement across both IaC and discovered resources, you can now write policies once and apply them universally - dramatically simplifying how organizations maintain security and compliance standards at scale.

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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting platform engineering to optimize their software delivery and operations. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams to provide reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery. Additionally, by 2027, 80% of large enterprises will leverage platform engineering to scale DevOps initiatives in hybrid cloud environments effectively.

This shift is driven by the rise of cloud adoption, where many enterprises face the challenge of uncoordinated application teams deploying workloads in different ways across various cloud platforms. This siloed approach often results in a lack of standardization, security risks, and operational inefficiencies.

Platform engineering offers a strategic solution to these issues. This guide provides the essential steps to successfully implement platform engineering, from laying the foundation to scaling internal developer platforms (IDPs) for future growth.

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