Cloud sprawl refers to the uncontrolled proliferation of cloud services and resources within an organization. It happens when employees or departments within an organization adopt cloud services independently without proper oversight or governance, thus leading to a lack of visibility and control over the organization's cloud infrastructure, resulting in increased security risks, wasted resources, and compliance challenges.

Cloud sprawl can also occur when an organization has multiple unintegrated cloud services, resulting in silos of data and applications. A situation that leads to increased complexity, cost, and difficulty managing and securing the data and applications.

To prevent cloud sprawl, organizations can implement policies and procedures for using cloud services, conduct regular assessments to identify and eliminate unnecessary cloud services, and implement a centralized platform to manage and monitor all cloud services.

ThreatNG Agentless Cloud Discovery helps with cloud sprawl by providing visibility into the resources being used and identifying any that are unnecessary or unused. It can scan any organization's public cloud environment to identify resources, including servers, storage, databases, and networks helping organizations identify resources that are no longer needed and terminate them, which can help reduce costs and improve efficiency. It can also help ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards by identifying resources that may not meet the organization's requirements and taking appropriate actions to address them. Agentless cloud discovery can also help organizations improve their cloud resource management by identifying which resources are being used and by whom and ensuring that they are used at optimal capacity. Thus, avoiding over-provisioning resources, which can also lead to unnecessary costs.