Partial discovery of cloud-based resources

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a computing system and from an external computing system, general information identifying computing resources of the external computing system, wherein the general information indicates a particular resource type of a particular computing resource that was identified, and wherein the external computing system is physically separated from the computing system by one or more networks;
• transmitting, by the computing system, a request to the external computing system for specific information associated with at least one computing resource of the identified computing resources based on the respective resource type of the at least one computing resource;
• receiving, by the computing system from the external computing system, the specific information associated with the at least one computing resource, wherein the specific information comprises a set of data fields not present within the general information;
• and
• storing, by the computing system in the persistent storage, the general information associated with the identified computing resources and the specific information associated with the at least one computing resource.

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing system that includes persistent storage, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, from an external computing system, general information identifying computing resources of the external computing system, wherein the general information indicates a particular resource type of a particular computing resource that was identified, and wherein the external computing system is physically separated from the computing system by one or more networks;
• transmitting, by the computing system, a request to the external computing system for specific information associated with at least one computing resource of the identified computing resources based on the respective resource type of the at least one computing resource;
• receiving, by the computing system from the external computing system, the specific information associated with the at least one computing resource, wherein the specific information comprises a set of data fields not present within the general information;
• and
• storing, by the computing system in the persistent storage, the general information associated with the identified computing resources and the specific information associated with the at least one computing resource.