Multi-cloud assessment framework for dynamic cloud workloads

A computerized method for explicit and implicit cloud-resource data extraction with a multi-cloud governance platform comprising:

• providing a plurality of cloud resources;
• automatically obtaining a cloud resource data for each cloud resource in the plurality of cloud resources;
• defining a set of Cloud Operations, Security, Cost, Access, and Resource (OSCAR) cloud resources information for a plurality of explicit relationships and a plurality of implicit relationships of each cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resource;
• defining a plurality of implicit relationships that are derived from a plurality of connections of each cloud resource;
• obtaining a billing information of each cloud resource;
• obtaining a third-party data for the cloud resource;
• obtaining and associating a plurality of relevant standards, policies and regulations for each cloud resource;
• obtaining one or more relevant regions and other geographical data relevant to each cloud resource;
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• with the plurality of implicit relationships that are derived from a plurality of connections of each cloud resource, the billing information of each cloud resource, the third-party data for the cloud resource plurality of relevant standards, the policies and regulations for each cloud resource, and the one or more relevant regions and other geographical data relevant to each cloud resource, generating a wholistic view of each cloud resource.