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Cloud Custodian

The Path to a Well Managed Cloud

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What is Cloud Custodian?

Open-source tool for managing cloud resources through filtering, tagging, and applying actions via YAML DSL policies. Enables real-time compliance enforcement, cost optimization, and infrastructure governance across multiple cloud providers.

Independently observed

Cloud Custodian pricing

We don't have Cloud Custodian's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source under Apache 2.0

What Cloud Custodian does

The capabilities that matter for cloud security software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Posture
CSPM (posture / misconfig)
✓
KSPM (Kubernetes posture)
✓
Workload
CWPP (workload protection)
✗
Entitlements
CIEM (entitlements)
✗
Data
DSPM (data posture)
✗
Pipeline
IaC / pipeline scanning
✓
Architecture
Agentless scanning
✓
Runtime
Runtime protection
✗
Coverage
Cloud coverage
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Tencent Cloud, OpenStack (beta)
Compliance
Compliance frameworks assessed
General cloud security and compliance posture
Licensing
Open-core scanner available
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Windows
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (6)

Independently observed
  • Terraform
  • Slack
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • EventBridge
  • Config Rules

Cloud Custodian alternatives

Other cloud security software we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Cloud Custodian, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 50 / 100
low · 4%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities7512.00896.7✓
Integrations2412.00291.6✓
Github Stars05.000.0-
Github Activity018.000.0-
Release Cadence010.000.0-
Security Posture040.000.0-
Package Downloads026.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"ciem":false,"cspm":true,"cwpp":false,"dspm":false,"kspm":true,"iac_scanning":true,"cloud_coverage":"AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Tencent Cloud, OpenStack (beta)","open_core_scanner":true,"agentless_scanning":true,"runtime_protection":false,"compliance_frameworks":"General cloud security and compliance posture"}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count6mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelopen_sourcemediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%