Additional FAQs: Asset Management

When you integrate your cloud accounts to Scrut, the system automatically:

• Scans your connected cloud accounts to identify all supported services

• Assigns each discovered resource to the appropriate asset category

• Regularly syncs to keep your inventory up-to-date

• Creates a unified multi-cloud view across all your providers

Yes! Scrut unifies assets from AWS, Azure, and GCP under consistent categories. For example, AWS EC2 instances, Azure Virtual Machines, and GCP Compute Engine instances all fall under the "Virtual Machines" category. This makes it easier to manage multi-cloud environments.

Virtual Machines:

• EMR Clusters (Elastic MapReduce for big data)

• EC2 Instances (virtual servers)

• AMIs (Amazon Machine Images)

Serverless Functions:

• Lambda Functions

Object Storage category includes:

• DynamoDB Tables (NoSQL database)

• RDS Instances and Snapshots (relational databases)

• Redshift Clusters (data warehouses)

• EFS File Systems (shared storage)

• S3 Buckets (object storage)

• ElastiCache (Redis, Memcached)

The Virtual Networks category includes:

• VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds)

• Subnets

• VPC Peering Connections

• Network Interfaces (ENIs)

Monitoring & Logging:

• CloudTrail Trails (API activity logging)

• CloudWatch Alarms and Metric Filters

Key Management:

• KMS Keys (encryption keys)

• Secrets Manager Secrets

Identity & Access:

• IAM Users, Roles, and Groups

Scrut also supports ACM, CloudFormation, CloudFront, CodeBuild, Config, Direct Connect, ELB/ELBv2, Route53, SES, SNS, and SQS.

Virtual Machines category:

• Virtual Machines (compute instances)

• Managed Disks (block storage)

• Snapshots (disk backups)

• Images (VM templates)

Containers category:

• App Service Web Apps (PaaS applications)

Object Storage category includes:

• Storage Accounts (blob, file, queue, table)

• SQL Database Servers

• PostgreSQL Database Servers

• MySQL Database Servers

Yes, Scrut supports Azure Virtual Networks under the Virtual Networks category.

Key Management:

• Key Vaults (keys, secrets, certificates)

Monitoring & Logging:

• Logging/Monitoring Resources (Azure Monitor)

Identity & Access:

• Azure AD Users and Groups

• RBAC Roles (including custom roles)

Scrut also integrates with Azure Security Center.

Virtual Machines:

• Compute Engine Instances

• Compute Engine Snapshots

Containers:

• GKE Clusters (Google Kubernetes Engine)

Serverless Functions:

• Cloud Functions v1 and v2

Object Storage category includes:

• Cloud Storage Buckets

• Cloud SQL Instances (managed databases)

• Redis Instances (Cloud Memorystore)

• BigQuery Datasets (data warehouse)

Yes, under Virtual Networks:

• VPC Networks

• Subnetworks

• DNS Managed Zones

Monitoring & Logging:

• Logging Sinks and Metrics

• Uptime Checks

• Alert Policies

Key Management:

• KMS Keyrings

Identity & Access:

• IAM Users and Groups

Yes, Scrut supports code repositories from platforms like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket under the Version Control category.

Yes, Scrut integrates with Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms to track mobile devices.

AWS RDS instances are categorized under "Object Storage" along with other database and storage services.

Yes! AWS Lambda Functions and Azure equivalents would appear in the same asset management views, though Azure Functions (if added as App Service) may appear under Containers. Serverless functions are grouped in the "Serverless Functions" category.

Look in the "Object Storage" category, which includes databases from all providers: AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database, GCP Cloud SQL, and more.

Yes, all encryption keys from AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, and GCP KMS appear under the "Key Management" category.

Check the "Users" category, which consolidates IAM users from AWS, Azure AD, and GCP IAM in one place.

Yes! You can manually add any asset and assign it to the most appropriate category, even if it's not automatically discovered. Use the "Add Asset" feature and select "Manually."

Yes, you can manually add on-premise or custom infrastructure as assets. Add them manually and assign them to the appropriate category (e.g., Virtual Machines, Object Storage) for consistent management and compliance tracking.