Inventory is the starting point
Cloud-provider APIs can enumerate projects, accounts, subscriptions, networks, compute, storage, databases and managed services. That inventory is necessary, but it does not explain why a resource exists, who owns it, how it is delivered, who can change it or what it costs.
Relationships create useful context
Cloud intelligence adds relationships between resources, IAM, billing, repositories, pipelines, environments and owners. A database becomes more useful when you can connect it to the service that uses it, the identity that administers it, the infrastructure definition that should manage it and the cost attributed to the workload.
Discovery should support action
Once the live state is understood, the next questions become possible: Is this resource managed by IaC? Has live configuration drifted? Does privileged access still need to exist? Is the cost owner known? Which deployment changed the environment?
A multi-cloud reality
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have different resource models and governance constructs. A useful cross-cloud intelligence layer preserves provider-specific detail while creating enough common context for enterprise questions to span the estate.
Core is designed around that relationship model rather than reducing cloud intelligence to a static CMDB export.
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