1. Introduction

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, they often encounter a distinct set of operational hurdles. The promise of the cloud - speed and agility - is frequently hampered by:

Chaotic Operations: Inefficiency due to a lack of automation and guardrails.
Limited Visibility: Fragmented control across cloud accounts, departments, and user roles.
Cost Overruns: Budget unpredictability and waste.
Security Exposure: Lack of data to prioritize security issues and having meaningful risk management.
Compliance Complexity: Difficulty maintaining evolving regulatory requirements.

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The CoreStack Solution:
CoreStack provides the critical balance needed for modern cloud adoption. Our platform delivers Velocity with Control, enabling your teams to accelerate innovation without compromising on security, cost efficiency, or compliance. With intelligent, automated guardrails in place, you gain the freedom to scale with complete peace of mind."

2. Cloud Governance and Security Platform

CoreStack is an AI-powered platform designed to accelerate cloud adoption with confidence. By combining intelligent automation, unified visibility, agentic insights, and robust guardrails, CoreStack empowers organizations to innovate rapidly.

Figure: An infographic detailing how the platform is designed to provide comprehensive cloud governance and security, not just piecemeal tools and services.

The platform delivers cloud governance and security through the following capabilities.

Capability	Description
Governance	Ensures that digital assets are operated and managed in a secure, compliant, and collaborative manner by: Entitlements: Establishing the required access rights and permissions for digital assets Workflow: Defining processes for collaboration and approval to maintain accountability Integration: Connecting digital assets with enterprise tools and processes for seamless operations Guardrails: Implementing policies and controls to ensure compliance and prevent misuse Agentic Governance: A multi-agent AI system that understands context, semantics, relationships, intent, and business criticality to deliver agentic insights, analytics, and conversational experiences powered by LCGM™ (Large Cloud Governance Model), an ontology-based knowledge model
Cloud Operations (CloudOps)	Drive operational efficiency and consistency with automation, inventory visibility, autonomous configurations, and unified operations posture across multi-cloud environments
Self Service (StackOps)	Drive operational efficiency and consistency with automation, inventory visibility, autonomous configurations, and unified operations posture across multi-cloud environments
Financial Operations (FinOps)	Drive financial accountability and cost efficiency through granular visibility, AI-driven optimizations, automated workflows, and a unified multi-cloud cost governance posture
Cloud Assessments	Detect and remediate architectural drift with fast, continuous, and intelligent multi-cloud assessments powered by configurable policies and AI-driven insights
Security Operations (SecOps)	Enforce security and Access posture through continuous monitoring, policy-based guardrails, automated remediation, and AI-driven insights across multi-cloud environments. This is equivalent to Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Application Security Operations (AppSecOps)	Embeds application security into DevOps so security checks happen continuously across software delivery lifecycle. Enables Risk prioritized software supply chain vulnerabilities and attack path detection
Continuous Compliance (ComplianceOps)	Enables continuous monitoring of controls to meet regulatory or industry compliance requirements. Identifies violations, drives remediation with evidence-ready reporting, helping teams reduce audit risk while staying secure at scale

3. How the Platform Works

Each organization’s needs are unique to their business. Unlike single-purpose tools, CoreStack platform adapts to your unique business needs and scales across multi-cloud environments. CoreStack is a comprehensive, AI-powered platform that delivers a unified and extensible approach to cloud governance, operations, security, and cost management.

Key Platform Capabilities:

Flexible Hierarchies: Model account and business structures to reflect organizational complexity
Autonomous Governance Rules: Define post provisioning configuration rules to be applied for cloud native/third party services that align with your enterprise standards
Seamless Integration: Connect with existing enterprise tools
Extensible Automation: Bring your own automation, orchestration and remediation templates
Extensible Guardrails: Bring your own retrospective or proactive policies
Extensible Compliance Framework: Bring your own compliance standards to be continuously monitored for violations
Customizable Insights: Build dashboards and reports that deliver actionable intelligence for every stakeholder.

Business Value Delivered

Customers recognize the value of this platform provides, reporting measurable improvements across key metrics such as:

Metric	Improvement
Cloud Costs	📉 20%–50% Reduction
Operational Efficiency	🚀 40% Increase
Team Productivity	⚡ 30% Increase
Compliance Costs	💰 30%–50% Reduction
Security Threats	🛡️ 20%–40% Reduction
Cloud Value	☁️ 100% Delivery

CoreStack Foundation Principles

The platform is built on foundational the below principles that ensure it remains extensible, flexible and adaptable

Cloud Native: Leverage cloud native services effectively. Complement instead of reinventing what is offered.
Complete Coverage: Govern every service offered by top cloud providers
Convergence: Converge various orchestration, automation, policy engines to leverage existing investments and avoid vendor lock in
Connected Ecosystem: Rule based bidirectional integration of cloud with enterprise ecosystem of tools and processes
Cloud Resource 360 (CR360): Establishes 360-degree view of cloud resource graph for effective governance
Cognitive: Leverage cognitive insights through LCGM to enhance human decision-making for cloud environments, enabling smarter and more informed choices

CoreStack E5 Design Philosophy

The platform is built on the E5 design principles, which accelerate cloud adoption while maintaining control, ensuring security, and maximizing the value of cloud assets.

Embrace: Simplify complexity as organizations adopt multi-cloud, AI, and container services.
Extract: Gather all resources and their attributes across cloud environments to deliver unified visibility and control.
Enhance: Improve resource visibility by adding contextual insights that support informed decision-making.
Enrich: Increase the business value of cloud assets through agentic intelligence and advanced analytics.
Expose: Provide the necessary resources and detailed information to enable confident, data-driven decisions.

Using the CoreStack Platform

CoreStack supports various stakeholders depending on cloud maturity and governance needs:

💰 FinOps Teams: Track and optimize cloud spend across business units.

🛡️ Security Teams: Automate compliance checks and enforce security baselines.

🏗️ Cloud Architects: Detect and remediate architectural drift.

⚙️ Operations Teams: Monitor resource health and automate remediation workflows.

4. Summary and Next Steps

The platform offers a comprehensive, intelligent, and scalable solution to cloud governance and security. It enables organizations to operate at high velocity - launching new services, scaling operations, and innovating faster - all while maintaining the control and compliance required in today’s complex cloud environments.

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