Holistically protecting serverless applications based on detecting in-cloud deployments

A system comprising:

• one or more hardware processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising computer programming instructions, which, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, configure the system to:
• deploy a discovery tracker in a cloud service account, wherein the cloud service account is hosted by a cloud computing environment, wherein the discovery tracker executes on a compute resource of the cloud service account;
• detect, by the discovery tracker, that a first workload is deployed in the cloud service account, and identify a plurality of assets deployed in the cloud service account that are associated with the first workload;
• transmit, by the discovery tracker to a storage manager component of the system, information that identifies the first workload and the plurality of assets associated with the first workload;
• based on the information transmitted to the storage manager component, determine whether a first workload for which the system comprises a corresponding first application entity definition is operational in the cloud service account;
• based on determining that the first workload is not operational in the cloud service account, update a cloud workload inventory;
• based on the cloud workload inventory indicating that the first workload is not operational in the cloud service account, identify one or more first secondary copies of assets that are associated with the first workload;
• and
• based on one or more first preferences configured in the system for the one or more first secondary copies, perform at least one storage management operation that one of:
• removes the one or more first secondary copies from the system, and moves the one or more first secondary copies from one or more first data storage resources to one or more other data storage resources that have a different performance characteristic than the one or more first data storage resources.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• by a data storage management system that comprises one or more hardware processors:
• deploying a discovery tracker in a cloud service account, wherein the cloud service account is hosted by a cloud computing environment;
• determining, by the discovery tracker, that a first workload is deployed in the cloud service account, and identifying a plurality of assets deployed in the cloud service account that are associated with the first workload;
• receiving, from the discovery tracker, information that identifies the first workload and the plurality of assets associated with the first workload;
• based on the information, determining whether the data storage management system comprises a first application entity that is defined to correspond to the first workload;
• based on determining that the data storage management system lacks the first application entity, creating the first application entity in the data storage management system, and additionally creating first preferences for storage management operations for the plurality of assets associated with the first workload;
• based on the first preferences, performing a storage management operation that generates one or more first secondary copies of the plurality of assets associated with the first workload and stores the one or more first secondary copies to a data storage resource that is configured outside the cloud service account, wherein the storage management operation coordinates the one or more first secondary copies to collectively form a point-in-time copy of the first workload.