Stacklet Platform

The core challenge in large-scale cloud deployments is balancing developer productivity with stringent security, compliance, and cost management requirements. This is particularly daunting when dealing with multiple cloud platforms and accounts, where siloed teams often struggle to enforce consistent governance policies.

Stacklet Platform addresses this challenge by extending the Cloud Custodian open source project with advanced governance as code capabilities. The platform allows cloud and security engineering teams to codify, automate, visualize, and collaborate on policies using a standard, declarative language. This approach enables the creation of policies in minutes, with over 1,500 ready-to-use policies available for common use cases and compliance frameworks like NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, and CIS Benchmarks.

Technically, Stacklet Platform provides a robust management console that lets administrators configure, deploy, and orchestrate governance policies across multiple cloud platforms and accounts. It integrates with existing workflows and collaboration tools like Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow, reducing alert fatigue through automated aggregation and contextualization of non-compliant resources. The platform also includes Stacklet AssetDB, a real-time streaming database of cloud resources and configurations that can be queried via SQL or natural language, significantly reducing governance reporting times by up to 80%.

Operational considerations include the platform's ability to handle large-scale multi-account and multi-cloud environments, where it monitors policy executions and reports on policy health. This reduces the overhead of managing hundreds of controls across thousands of cloud accounts. However, the scalability of the platform can be limited by the complexity of the policies and the volume of data being processed, particularly in very large deployments where query performance might degrade.

Key technical details include the use of a human-readable, declarative policy language that requires 10 times fewer lines of code than manual scripting. The platform supports continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, allowing DevOps teams to address governance issues earlier. Additionally, Stacklet's AI-driven assistant, Stacklet Jun0, helps speed up governance tasks and reporting using intuitive natural language queries.