Rate limiting of cloud account change events and state management

A method, comprising:

• processing each of a first stream of change events received from a cloud provider and associated with any assets of a particular public cloud account, wherein the first stream of change events includes a plurality of event types;
• determining that a particular one of the plurality of event types included in the first stream of change events exceeds a rate threshold;
• discarding each of a second stream of change events of the particular event type received from the public cloud provider and associated with the particular public cloud account;
• querying the cloud provider to perform a collection on all the assets of the particular public cloud account after a particular delay period;
• and
• processing each of a third stream of change events received from the cloud provider and associated with any assets of the particular public cloud account responsive to a completion of the collection, wherein the third stream of change events includes the plurality of event types.

A system, comprising:

• a first stream engine configured to process each of a first stream of change events received from a cloud provider and associated with any assets of a particular public cloud account;
• a threshold engine configured to determine that the first stream of change events exceeds a rate threshold;
• a discard engine configured to discard each of a second stream of change events received from the public cloud provider and associated with any assets of the particular public cloud account;
• a collection engine configured to query the cloud provider to perform a collection on all the assets of the particular public cloud account after a particular delay period;
• and
• a third stream engine configured to process each of a third stream of change events received from the cloud provider and associated with any assets of the particular public cloud account responsive to a completion of the collection.