Policy-as-code for data assets and remediation in cloud environments

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving a computer-coded policy for data governance using one or more data assets within a cloud environment;
• automatically associating the one or more data assets to the computer-coded policy based at least in part on one or more pre-defined capabilities of the one or more data assets and using annotations associated with the one or more data assets, the annotations comprising metadata describing the one or more data assets, the annotations being populated based on one or more parameters provided in an annotation template;
• enabling dynamic changes to add or remove a determined data asset of the one or more data assets;
• and
• performing a remediation action that is associated with the one or more data assets in response to a violation associated with the computer-coded policy.

A non-transitory computer-storage medium storing instructions configured to instruct at least one computing device to:

• receive a computer-coded policy for data governance using one or more data assets within a cloud environment;
• automatically associate the one or more data assets to the computer-coded policy based at least in part on pre-defined capabilities of the one or more data assets and using annotations associated with the one or more data assets, the annotations comprising metadata describing the one or more data assets, the annotations being populated based on one or more parameters provided in an annotation template;
• enable dynamic changes to add or remove determined data assets of the one or more data assets;
• and
• perform a remediation action that is associated with the one or more data assets in response to a violation associated with the computer-coded policy.