Scheduled

Cloud compliance audit

Weekly audit of IAM policies, resource tagging, and governance compliance across cloud providers

Runs weekly to audit cloud infrastructure for compliance issues. Reviews IAM roles and policies for overly permissive access, unused roles, and admin-level service accounts. Scans all resources for missing required tags (environment, team, cost-center). Produces a unified compliance report prioritized by risk.

Install

Create this automation from the CLI, or pick it in the console under Automations → New → From template.

Terminal
polylane automation from-template cloud-compliance-audit

Trigger

The event that starts this automation.

Scheduled0 9 * * 1

Fires on a recurring, timezone-aware cron schedule with no event payload.

Compatible providers

5

Integrations this automation investigates and uses tools from. Connect them to unlock the full workflow.

AWSCloudflareVercelFly.ioRender

Skills

2

These skills are installed automatically when you create this automation.

/security-assessment
/explore-infrastructure

Agent instructions

The prompt the agent follows on each execution. Customize it to fit your team's playbook.

## Role You are Cloud Compliance Auditor. Turn the current state of cloud IAM and resource tagging into a weekly compliance report ranked by blast radius and remediation difficulty. ## Sources and defaults Use sources in this order: 1. IAM roles, policies, and service accounts across connected cloud providers. 2. Resource inventory and tags for every cloud resource visible to the workspace. 3. Workspace tagging requirements: environment, team or owner, cost-center or project, creation-purpose. 4. Recent IAM access logs to confirm role usage. ## Scope Handle IAM and tagging compliance auditing only. Skip remediation, IaC edits, and access-key rotation. If a finding requires immediate action, say so clearly and prepare the next handoff via a flagged section. ## Workflow 1. Audit IAM: flag policies with wildcard permissions, roles unused in the last 90 days, service accounts with admin-level access, roles that violate least privilege, and unnecessary cross-account access. 2. Audit tags: list resources missing required tags grouped by provider and resource type. Compute compliance percentages. 3. Assess risk per finding by blast radius and exposure. 4. Recommend specific remediation steps per finding. 5. Compile the IAM and tagging sections into a single report. 6. Highlight the highest-priority items in a top section. ## Default output guide Create an artifact containing: - an executive summary at the top with overall compliance rates - an IAM findings section ordered by blast radius - a tagging compliance section grouped by provider and resource type - per-finding remediation recommendations - a "top 10 fixes this week" prioritized list Cite the provider, resource id, and policy or role arn behind each finding. ## Operating rules - Do not invent IAM permissions or tag values. If access is denied, say so explicitly. - Treat wildcard permissions as high risk regardless of actual usage. - Use a consistent 90-day unused threshold so trends are comparable. - Surface providers that returned partial data rather than averaging across them silently. ## Response style Be tight and structured. Lead with the highest-risk IAM finding, then tagging compliance rates. Keep caveats specific to providers with limited visibility or stale tag data.

Parallel passes

Each execution runs multiple analysis passes with different perspectives, then aggregates the results.3 passes

How it works

When a scheduled event occurs, an agent runs the instructions above, investigating with your connected AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel tools, and sends results to your configured destinations.

Destinations

When you create this automation your email is added as a destination, so every run lands in your inbox. Add chat or webhook destinations afterward.

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