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CloudQuery
Company blog · cloudquery.io/blogprogrammingdata
CloudQuery is the company blog at cloudquery.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Query AWS API with SQL”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention CloudQuery as an open-source tool for querying cloud assets, comparing it with Steampipe and similar tools. They also link its posts on S3 ACL and Block Public Access defaults and its security policy docs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Query AWS API with SQL4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-17
- Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-28
- 581 GB/HR and the realities of rate limiting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-19
- Six Months with ClickHouse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-08
- We Handle Billion-Row ClickHouse Inserts with UUID Range Bucketing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-06
What Hacker News says?
There is another contender in infrasql realm called cloudquery[1]. Steampipe has been around for very long. Mind you the steampipe has an AGPL license. [1] https://www.cloudquery.io
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on “Select * from cloud”Submitted CloudQuery SDK: Query Anything with SQL as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSteampipe has their own cloud at https://steampipe.io/docs/cloud/overview Alternative is Cloudquery but they don't offer cloud anymore. https://www.cloudquery.io/ Plug, not based on Steampipe, but we also offer similar managed SQL on your cloud assets. https://www.resmo.com/
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on “Select * from cloud”Submitted A Joyful Tale of Golang Memory Profiling at CloudQuery as a story · 9 points
HN discussionInteresting! Feels similar to CloudQuery[1] which is also open source. [1] https://www.cloudquery.io/
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on “Querying AWS at scale across APIs, regions, and accounts”Submitted Open Source Terraform Drift Detection as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYes, in an ideal world it should. Also, I agree as someone here noted immutability and IaC are related terms but not the same and the article mostly covers IaC best practices (in a good way!). BTW - drift detection is a harder problem than it seems and has a lot challenges running this accurately at scale. I wrote about this here - https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/announcing-cloudquery-terrafo... Full disclosure - Im…
Comment linking /blog/announcing-cloudquery-terraform-drift-detection
on “Cloud infrastructure should be immutable”Submitted One change to optimize them all: a story about batching on the source side as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog detailing what this change means on S3 ACLs and Block Public Access on by default: https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/finding-enabled-s3-acls-and-d...
Comment linking /blog/finding-enabled-s3-acls-and-disabled-s3-block-public-access
on “AWS S3 beginning to apply 2 security best practices all new buckets by default”Submitted Continuous AWS IAM Security Best Practices with SQL as a story · 8 points
HN discussionGreat post. Pg replication is a hard topic with lots of edge cases and I would say its still far from end user usability. We recently introduced PG cdc (via logical replication) to any destination https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/postgres-cdc-to-any-destinati...
Comment linking /blog/postgres-cdc-to-any-destination
on “PostgreSQL Logical Replication Explained”Submitted Open Source Cloud Asset Inventory with Grafana and CloudQuery as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWe wrote a post on this and some of the nuances/discrepancies for these S3 settings: https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/finding-enabled-s3-acls-and-d...
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on “S3 will automatically enable Block Public Access and disable ACL for new buckets”Submitted Making GitHub Issues Search Suck Less with CloudQuery, PgVector and OpenAI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMuch more of a focus on security and infrastructure than other EL tools. Like these security policies for example - https://www.cloudquery.io/docs/core-concepts/policies
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on “Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go”Submitted PostgreSQL CDC to any database directly (No queue/Kafka required) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGreat question! We specifically started with connectors/plugins to cloud infrastructure providers and other infrastructure vendors - This is why most of our users migrated and/or compared us to the tools specified here ( https://www.cloudquery.io/docs/cq-vs-others/overview ). There are no connectors for AWS, GCP, Azure in FiveTran, Airbyte, Meltano but as we extend the number of our source plugins I believe this que…
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on “Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go”Submitted Our Open-Source Journey as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS SSO and the Lost IAM Keys as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Handle Billion-Row ClickHouse Inserts with UUID Range Bucketing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Months with ClickHouse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 581 GB/HR and the realities of rate limiting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Built an MCP Server and These Are the Gotchas Nobody Talks About as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudQuery Handle Billion-Row ClickHouse Inserts with UUID Range Bucketing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Query AWS API with SQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grafana but for Cloud Infrastructure Config and with SQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making GitHub Issues Search Suck Less with BigQuery, Vertex AI and CloudQuery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudQuery Performance Benchmark Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Months with ClickHouse at CloudQuery (The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an AWS Cloud Asset Inventory with Postgres as a story · 2 points
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