Multi-cloud management: one dashboard for AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare

Nobody Plans for Multi-Cloud. It Just Happens.

You started on AWS. Then the marketing team bought Cloudflare for CDN and DNS. A new engineer brought in GCP for a machine learning project. A client contract requires Azure for data residency. And suddenly you’re managing four cloud providers, four billing consoles, four permission models, and four sets of security configurations.

Multi-cloud is rarely a strategic decision. It’s the natural result of teams picking the best tool for each job — which is exactly what they should do. The problem is managing the sprawl that follows.

The Multi-Cloud Tax

Each cloud provider adds overhead:

Visibility Fragmentation

Your AWS costs are in Cost Explorer. GCP costs are in Billing Console. Azure costs are in Cost Management. Cloudflare costs are in the Cloudflare dashboard. To answer “how much are we spending on cloud?” you need to log into four portals and add up the numbers in a spreadsheet.

Security Inconsistency

Each provider has different security primitives. AWS has Security Groups and NACLs. GCP has Firewall Rules and VPC Service Controls. Azure has Network Security Groups and Azure Firewall. A security policy that’s enforced on AWS might have no equivalent on GCP.

Your security team needs to be expert in all of them — or (more likely) they’re expert in one and guessing on the others.

Compliance Complexity

SOC 2 auditors want evidence from every cloud provider you use. If your compliance tooling only covers AWS, your GCP and Azure resources are blind spots. Every additional provider multiplies the evidence collection burden.

Skill Gaps

Finding engineers who know one cloud provider well is hard enough. Finding engineers who know AWS and GCP and Azure and Cloudflare? You’re hiring unicorns.

See the IAN team run on your cloud. We connect to your AWS account via a scoped read-only role, run the Observe-tier agents, and leave you with a concrete audit report — cost waste, security exposure, compliance gaps, and a labor-offset estimate. You keep the findings regardless of next steps. Get a free infrastructure audit →

What Unified Multi-Cloud Management Looks Like

Unified Cost Dashboard

One view of all cloud spending, normalized and comparable:

• Cross-provider cost breakdown — see AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare costs side by side
• Service-level comparison — compare the cost of equivalent services across providers (RDS vs. Cloud SQL vs. Azure SQL)
• Trend analysis — track total cloud spend over time, regardless of provider
• Team attribution — who’s spending what, across all providers

Without normalization, you can’t make informed decisions about where to run workloads. With it, you can answer: “Should we move this ML pipeline from GCP to AWS to consolidate?” with actual cost data.

Unified Security Scanning

One security scan that covers all providers:

• IAM audit — overly permissive roles in AWS, GCP, and Azure, in one report
• Network security — open ports, misconfigured firewalls, and public-facing resources across all providers
• Encryption — data at rest and in transit verification for every cloud
• Compliance mapping — map findings to SOC 2 / HIPAA controls regardless of which provider they came from

Unified Access Management

Single sign-on and consistent permissions across providers:

• Federated identity — one identity provider (Okta, Google Workspace, Azure AD) for all clouds
• Consistent role mapping — “developer” means the same permissions on every provider
• Access reviews — see who has access to what, across all providers, in one view
• Offboarding — revoke access everywhere when someone leaves, not just the provider you remembered

The Practical Path to Multi-Cloud Management

Step 1: Inventory Everything

You can’t manage what you can’t see. Start by inventorying every cloud account across every provider:

• Which teams use which providers?
• What’s running where?
• Who has admin access?
• What’s the monthly spend per provider?

Most teams are surprised by what they find. Shadow cloud accounts, forgotten trial subscriptions, and resources nobody knows the purpose of.

Step 2: Consolidate Visibility

Don’t try to standardize on one cloud (you won’t). Instead, standardize on one management layer:

• Connect all cloud accounts to a single management platform
• Normalize cost data for cross-provider comparison
• Run security scans across all providers from one tool
• Set up unified alerting — one place for all cost and security notifications

Step 3: Enforce Consistency

Use the management layer to enforce consistent policies:

• Tagging standards across all providers
• Security baselines (encryption, network access, logging)
• Cost guardrails (budgets, anomaly detection)
• Compliance monitoring (continuous evidence collection)

How IAN Manages Multi-Cloud

IAN supports AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare from a single dashboard:

1. Connect accounts from any provider in minutes — read-only access, least-privilege permissions
2. Unified cost view — all providers, all accounts, one dashboard with trend analysis and anomaly detection
3. Cross-provider security scanning — IAM, network, encryption, and compliance findings from every cloud in one prioritized list
4. Compliance evidence — SOC 2 and HIPAA evidence collected from all providers, mapped to controls automatically
5. AI-powered recommendations — “Your GCP ML instances cost 40% more than equivalent AWS instances — consider migrating”

No per-provider add-ons. No additional configuration per cloud. Connect the accounts and everything works.

See All Your Clouds in One Place

Connect your AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare accounts. Get unified visibility into costs, security, and compliance — in minutes, not months.

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