Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, has become a standard way for enterprises to build and manage cloud environments. Rather than configuring infrastructure by hand, IT teams define servers, databases, networks and policies in version-controlled code. That approach makes changes easier to review and repeat across environments, and it has grown more important as companies run workloads across several clouds and give developers more self-service options.
The problem, however, is that the cloud rarely stays exactly as the code describes it. An engineer may make an emergency change in a cloud console, an automated pipeline may provision something outside the usual workflow, or an AI agent may create resources at machine speed. Those differences between the intended environment and the one actually running are known as infrastructure drift.
Drift can be a headache for platform and security teams. It can leave unused resources generating costs, introduce configuration mistakes, complicate compliance checks and make incidents harder to investigate. Most organizations can detect at least some of those problems, but detection often creates another queue of alerts for an engineer to sort through. The difficult part is deciding what needs to change, who owns it and how to fix it without creating a new problem.
env zero has introduced EZ Control, an early-access SaaS product the company calls an autonomous cloud control plane. The platform is designed to compare an enterprise’s declared infrastructure state with the cloud resources that are actually in use, then help enforce the policies that govern those resources.
EZ Control discovers cloud and SaaS resources through more than 80 integrations. It also covers nearly 2,300 resource types across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
The product organizes those resources in a continuously updated data layer that env zero describes as an ontology. In simpler terms, it aims to connect a resource with the code that created it, the team responsible for it, its cost, related dependencies and the policies that apply to it. That kind of context can be useful when a cloud issue involves more than a single misconfigured setting.
env zero says EZ Control can work with policies already managed in policy-as-code repositories, cloud security posture management tools and cloud-provider guardrails.
Teams can decide how much authority the platform receives for different types of resources. Options range from observe-only monitoring to recommending a fix, acting after approval or remediating automatically within predefined guardrails. For unintentional IaC drift, env zero says EZ Control can reapply the infrastructure code. For intentional changes, it can create a pull request against the relevant repository so the code catches up with the running environment.
The company also says the platform can apply the same policy and approval workflow to AI agents that it uses for human engineers. That may become more relevant as enterprises let automated systems make more infrastructure changes, but still need clear accountability and audit records.
EZ Control is available through an Early Access program. Organizations can start with agentless, read-only discovery, then increase automation one resource class at a time. For additional information visit http://www.envzero.com.