Jul 15, 2025 · 13 min read · In Part 1, we kept things simple. We used Steampipe with AWS to ask basic questions like “Is this bucket public?” or “Does Matt have MFA?”. We did it so that we could produce meaningful misconfig detections and not use CLI hackery. Simple checks only...
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Jul 1, 2025 · 13 min read · When I think of Cloud Security Posture Management — CSPM — I think of simple, necessary checks. Things like: Is this EBS volume encrypted? Does this IAM user have MFA enabled? Is logging turned on for this S3 bucket? It’s not complicated work — ...
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Feb 2, 2025 · 6 min read · In today’s cloud-first environment, ensuring your AWS infrastructure is secure and compliant is more critical than ever. Manual audits simply can’t keep pace with the rapid growth and complexity of cloud resources. Steampipe—an open-source tool that ...
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Nov 10, 2024 · 5 min read · Introduction This blog post explores Steampipe and Powerpipe, powerful tools for gaining insights into your cloud resources, particularly for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). We'll cover the basics of Steampipe, Powerpipe, and their parent company ...
Join discussionOct 26, 2024 · 4 min read · As working professionals, we usually handle a variety, or I must say, tons of different workloads, each sitting in separate accounts, regions, or with different cloud/on-prem providers. Navigating among these or having a sense of which thing is where...
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Jun 21, 2023 · 16 min read · Are you using Steampipe to query your cloud services, such as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment? Are you using the results for reporting, security checks, governance or other important tasks in your organization? And are you tired of having to...
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Jan 22, 2023 · 10 min read · Steampipe is an open-source tool under the AGPLv3 license for querying cloud APIs in a universal way and reasoning about the data in SQL. In our first post we explored the AWS plugin which maps the suite of AWS APIs to (currently) 274 Postgres tables...
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Nov 26, 2022 · 4 min read · In this post, you'll learn about a useful and simple CLI tool called SteamPipe to easily query the configuration properties of the RDS and its performance Metrics. Why should I care? While working with the RDS, you probably want some automation via s...
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Oct 28, 2022 · 3 min read · About Steampipe Steampipe organizes your cloud metadata into tables and fields that are easily discoverable and readable. It is the universal interface to APIs. You can SQL to query cloud infrastructure, SaaS, code, logs, and more. Painlessly joi...
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