Core Concepts on Troposphere Docs

Connections

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A connection represents a linked cloud provider account within Troposphere. Connections are the entry point for all data in the platform – without them, there are no resources or costs to manage.

Resources

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Resources are the cloud assets discovered automatically from your connected provider accounts. Every virtual machine, database, storage resource, network interface, and managed service appears as a resource in Troposphere, giving you a single searchable inventory of your estate.

Cost Buckets

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Cost buckets are the primary mechanism for organising and allocating cloud costs in Troposphere. They let you map your cloud spend to the structure that matters to your business – whether that is by team, project, environment, or cost center.

Principals

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A principal is any identity that can be granted access to resources in your cloud provider – a user, a group, a service account, or a federated identity. Troposphere imports the principal directory from every connected cloud provider so you can see who or what has access to your estate, independent of the resources themselves.

Policies

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Policies are compliance rules that continuously evaluate your cloud resources against criteria you define. They help enforce organisational standards – such as requiring encryption on storage, restricting instance sizes, or mandating specific tags – across all connected providers.

Policy Packs

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Policy Packs are curated collections of policy rules that enforce a specific compliance framework. Rather than authoring every rule yourself, your organisation subscribes to a pack and inherits the rules it contains. Packs are maintained by Troposphere, so they stay current as the underlying framework evolves.

Insights

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Insights are automated, pre-built checks that evaluate your cloud resources against established best practices. Unlike policies, which you define yourself, insights are maintained by Troposphere and updated as provider recommendations evolve.

Alerts

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Alerts are notifications generated by the platform when something requires your attention. They provide a unified feed of issues across cost, compliance, and operational health.

Organisations

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Organisations are the top-level containers in Troposphere. Every connection, resource, cost bucket, policy, and alert belongs to an organisation. They provide the multi-tenancy boundary that keeps data isolated between different teams or companies.