Holistic protection of cloud-based serverless applications

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• by a storage manager of a data storage management system, discovering a plurality of assets of a first serverless application that operates in a cloud computing environment;
• by the storage manager, storing, at a management database that is associated with the storage manager, a first application-entity that corresponds to the first serverless application,
• wherein the first application-entity references the plurality of assets,
• wherein the first application-entity comprises a dependency between a first asset among the plurality of assets and a second asset among the plurality of assets, and
• wherein the management database comprises a preference for protecting the first application-entity;
• by the storage manager, at a first time that is based on the preference, causing a first copy of the first serverless application to be generated, comprising:
• causing a first data agent, which operates in the cloud computing environment, and which is suitable to the first asset to, in conjunction with a media agent, generate a first copy of the first asset and store the first copy of the first asset at a secondary storage,
• causing a second data agent, which operates in the cloud computing environment, and which is suitable to the second asset to, in conjunction with a media agent, generate a first copy of the second asset and store the first copy of the second asset at a secondary storage, and
• causing the first copy of the first serverless application, which is tracked in the data storage management system as a first copy of the first application-entity, to include associations among:
• the first copy of the first asset, the first copy of the second asset, the dependency, and the first time;
• and
• wherein each of the storage manager, the first data agent, the second data agent, and the media agent executes on a respective computing device comprising one or more hardware processors.