Last updated on September 27th, 2024 at 12:08pm
As cloud infrastructures expand with advancements like AI and multicloud adoption, the need for robust governance to manage cloud operations becomes increasingly crucial. To address these challenges, Kion remains dedicated to providing a comprehensive suite of CloudOps capabilities within a single platform.
Today, we’re excited to unveil Kion 3.10 featuring enhancements across identity and access management, FinOps, and compliance.
Read on to discover the latest improvements and how they can benefit your organization.
Action Plans
Action Plans enable CloudOps teams to apply Kion Cloud Rules on projects and OUs via labels. Today, Kion allows users to apply Cloud Rules hierarchically via the Organization Chart. Action Plans expands on this concept and enables ‘horizontal’ application of Cloud Rules, providing even greater flexibility and enforcements. For example, consider a scenario where a CloudOps Engineer needs to prevent development environments from using expensive instance types. An Action Plan can now be used to attach a Cloud Rule to any Kion OU or project tagged with a ‘development’ label.
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Admin Audit
Admin Audit analyzes your cloud accounts to identify access risks. When enabled, it provides a detailed daily report of principals with privileged access on the accounts within your projects and OUs. Admin Audit exposes over-privileged or 'accidental admins' across your cloud accounts, so you can proactively right-size permissions.
‘Accidental admins’ include principals who can become admins indirectly via role-chaining to another role, privilege escalation, or other techniques. This provides unprecedented visibility across your multicloud infrastructure, empowering your CloudOps and security teams to confidently manage complex multicloud environments at scale.
OCI Financials
Our cross-cloud capabilities have taken a major leap! You can now add Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancies to Kion for financial tracking and reporting.
This new support will provide customers with financial visibility to manage infrastructure and enforce financial control for those using OCI. OCI is growing in usage for both commercial and public sector organizations. Now with Kion’s support, customers will be able to analyze cloud financial data across four of the most utilized public cloud providers in a single platform. Every piece of cloud infrastructure an organization owns should be easily accessible, visible, and manageable from one place, and this elevates our commitment to being truly multicloud.
To start, we will only support financial management for Oracle Cloud tenancies but plan to add additional platform capabilities over time.
Compliance Family Mapping
With compliance family mapping, individual, custom compliance checks are mapped directly to the compliance program controls they are related to. Individual compliance checks are re-used across multiple programs, providing a single source for checks and data and decreasing the time needed to scan for compliance findings.
You may also map custom checks to one or more compliance programs. Once a check is mapped to a program, any findings for that check will be related back to the mapped program control. This makes it easy to filter your findings by program, and see what needs to be addressed to reach compliance within the program.
That’s Not All!
These are just the highlights! For details on all of our new features, changes, and bug fixes, read the full release notes in our Support Center (login required for some articles).
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