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Tool profile · Compliance automation & security posture

CloudQuery

Sync cloud infrastructure into your own database, then ask compliance questions of it.

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sovereignty

An ELT framework that pulls cloud, SaaS and identity configuration into Postgres or a warehouse you own. Compliance becomes a query against your own data rather than a feature of somebody's platform, which also makes the evidence yours to keep.

OPEN SOURCEMPL-2.0 (core)SELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseMPL-2.0 (core)
PricingFree / self-host core; paid cloud and premium plugins
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes

What it does well

  • +The evidence lands in a database you control and can retain for years
  • +Broad source coverage beyond cloud — identity, SaaS, code hosting
  • +Fits teams that already have a warehouse and BI layer

Where it falls short

  • −You build the compliance logic; it ships the data, not the verdict
  • −Several plugins and features sit behind the commercial tier
  • −Furthest of these from anything an auditor would recognise unaided

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