Monitoring cloud computing environments with data control policies

One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a hardware proxy in a first cloud computing environment, a request to perform an action to obtain data from a network device in the first cloud computing environment, the request being received from a monitoring service in a second cloud computing environment remote from the first cloud computing environment;
• obtaining, by the hardware proxy, access control data for the network device from an access data store maintained in the first cloud computing environment and not accessible to the monitoring service;
• issuing, by the hardware proxy, one or more commands to the network device to access the data from the network device using the access control data for the network device;
• receiving, at the hardware proxy, the data obtained from the network device;
• and
• sending the data from the hardware proxy to the monitoring service.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, at a hardware proxy in a first cloud computing environment, a request to perform an action to obtain data from a network device in the first cloud computing environment, the request being received from a monitoring service in a second cloud computing environment remote from the first cloud computing environment;
• obtaining, by the hardware proxy, access control data for the network device from an access data store maintained in the first cloud computing environment and not accessible to the monitoring service;
• issuing, by the hardware proxy, one or more commands to the network device to access the data from the network device using the access control data for the network device;
• receiving, at the hardware proxy, the data obtained from the network device;
• and
• sending the data from the hardware proxy to the monitoring service.