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When your cloud scales faster than your oversight.
As SAP BTP, Microsoft Azure and other platforms grow, important questions often remain unanswered in daily operations: What does it cost? Who has access? Is everything running as it should? Cloudguardian is designed for companies that want these areas monitored reliably.
Who benefits from Cloudguardian.
OPERATIONS
IT teams keep platform operations, projects and tickets moving in parallel. Cloudguardian checks cost trends, access, certificates, configurations and backups, assesses findings and makes deviations visible.
GROWING COMPANIES
New platforms, roles and services often appear faster than the governance behind them. Cloudguardian shows where structure, responsibilities and traceability need to keep pace, so innovation remains scalable.
MANAGEMENT
Orphaned access, unclear cloud costs and unresolved governance issues often stay invisible until they become business risks. Cloudguardian provides an external expert view of emerging action points.
“EUR 3,000 per month just for log files in Azure?
I need to have that checked!”
Costs that quietly keep running.
Cloud costs often only become visible once individual items have already become noticeable. Log data, test environments, unused services or running resources are billed month after month. Cloudguardian checks these developments regularly and makes unusual cost drivers traceable.
Find cost drivers
Surprisingly high line items become visible before they become normal.
Review legacy items
Unused services and resources are checked regularly.
Assess costs
Cost trends become easier to understand and evaluate.
“Employee disabled! Why does he still have access 4 months later?”
Access rights that stay active too long.
Permissions often fit when they are set up. Later, new employees join, roles change, external providers receive access and system accounts remain active. Cloudguardian checks these rights continuously and proactively informs you when they no longer fit the current situation.
Check access
Orphaned accounts and outdated access are detected sooner.
Review permissions
Admin rights and external access are reviewed regularly.
Assess risks
Findings are prioritised and documented clearly.
“The integration between BTP and our S/4HANA suddenly went down.
In the end, a certificate had expired.”
Small details. Big impact.
In cloud environments with many dependencies, one unnoticed failure can become a risk: a certificate expires, an interface changes, a backup fails. Cloudguardian makes these dependencies visible early, so operations can keep running smoothly.
See runtimes
Expiry dates and technical dependencies come into view earlier.
Check certificates
Certificates, technical credentials and runtimes are reviewed regularly.
Assess findings
Critical findings are prioritised and documented.
What your team gains from Cloudguardian
BETTER OVERSIGHT
Costs, access and technical findings are viewed together and assessed by experts.
The result is a more complete view of costs, security and technology, with visible connections and better support for internal decisions.
LESS CONTROL EFFORT
Your team does not have to trigger recurring checks manually, follow them up or compile them from different tools each time.
This creates control areas that are checked regularly, documented clearly and bundled in a traceable way.
CONFIDENT DECISIONS
Findings are evaluated, prioritised and given a recommendation.
Critical points become visible earlier, risks can be assessed more clearly and sensible measures can be discussed in a more focused way.
