Google Cloud Policy Intelligence
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What is Google Cloud Policy Intelligence
Google Cloud Policy Intelligence is a set of capabilities in Google Cloud that helps security and cloud platform teams analyze and manage IAM policies by identifying who has access to what and where access is overly broad. It supports use cases such as least-privilege reviews, access troubleshooting, and reducing risk from misconfigured permissions across Google Cloud resources. It is typically used by organizations operating workloads on Google Cloud and integrates with Google Cloud’s IAM and logging/asset inventory services. Key characteristics include policy analysis for effective permissions and tooling to detect and remediate overly permissive access paths.
Deep integration with Google Cloud
It works natively with Google Cloud IAM constructs such as roles, bindings, service accounts, and resource hierarchy. This reduces the need to normalize data from multiple sources when the environment is primarily Google Cloud. It also aligns with Google Cloud’s administrative workflows and APIs, which can simplify adoption for existing Google Cloud operators.
Effective access and exposure analysis
It helps teams understand effective permissions, including how access is granted through policy inheritance and bindings. This supports periodic access reviews and least-privilege initiatives by highlighting overly broad access patterns. It is particularly useful for identifying risky access relationships that are not obvious from reading raw IAM policies.
Supports investigation and remediation workflows
It provides analysis outputs that can be used to validate whether a principal can access a resource and to guide policy changes. This can speed up troubleshooting for access issues and reduce time spent manually inspecting policies. The capabilities fit into security operations and cloud governance processes focused on IAM risk reduction.
Primarily scoped to Google Cloud
The capabilities focus on Google Cloud IAM and do not provide a unified control plane for multiple cloud providers. Organizations with significant multi-cloud footprints may need additional tools to standardize policy analysis and reporting across environments. This can increase operational overhead when governance requirements span more than Google Cloud.
Not a full compliance program tool
It addresses IAM policy risk and visibility but does not replace broader compliance management functions such as evidence collection, audit workflows, and control mapping. Teams pursuing formal certifications often require separate systems for continuous compliance reporting and auditor-ready documentation. As a result, it typically complements rather than substitutes compliance management platforms.
Requires IAM and org maturity
To get consistent results, organizations need well-structured resource hierarchy, role design, and policy hygiene. Complex custom roles, legacy bindings, and decentralized administration can make remediation more time-consuming. Effective use often depends on having clear ownership and processes for approving and deploying IAM changes.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Free of charge | Basic Policy Intelligence features provided at no additional cost to Google Cloud customers (includes project/org-level role recommendations for basic roles such as Owner, Editor, Viewer). See notes for limits. |
| Premium (Subscription) | Minimum $15,000 per year; subscription price generally calculated as 5% of projected annualized Google Cloud spend (for organizations with < $15M annual spend). | Advanced Policy Intelligence features (role recommendations for non-basic roles, policy insights, lateral movement insights, Policy Analyzer at scale) available when SCC Premium subscription is enabled at org or project level. Contact sales to purchase subscription. |
| Premium (Pay-as-you-go) | Usage-based (no stated subscription minimum for pay-as-you-go). Representative Security Command Center Premium pay-as-you-go rates (project-level vs organization-level): | |
| --- | --- |
- Compute Engine: $0.0071 / vCPU-hour (project-level); $0.0057 / vCPU-hour (organization-level).
- BigQuery on-demand compute (analysis): $1.00 / tebibyte (project-level); $0.80 / tebibyte (organization-level).
- Cloud Storage - Class A operations: $0.002 / 1,000 ops (project-level); $0.0016 / 1,000 ops (organization-level).
- Artifact Analysis/Artifact Registry scanning: $0.20 / count (both).
- BigQuery capacity compute (analysis): $0.00548 / hour (project-level); $0.004384 / hour (organization-level). (For the full list of pay-as-you-go SKUs and rates, see the Security Command Center pricing page.) | Pay-as-you-go Premium is activated at project-level or organization-level. Charges are applied based on usage of specific Google Cloud services (see above table). Some advanced Policy Intelligence capabilities require organization-level activation. | | Plan | Price | Key features & notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Enterprise (Subscription) | Minimum $15,000 per year; subscription price generally calculated as 5% of projected annualized Google Cloud spend (for organizations with < $15M annual spend). | Enterprise provides full CNAPP & multi-cloud monitoring. Pricing includes a Google Cloud component (5% of spend as described) plus an "other clouds" component priced as a percentage of the Google Cloud component (Small/Medium/Large/Extra Large/custom tiers). Enterprise must be purchased via sales. |
Notes:
- Policy Intelligence does not have a separate per-feature SKU on the public site; advanced features are provided via Security Command Center Premium or Enterprise activations. Basic Policy Intelligence functionality and certain role recommendations are free; Policy Analyzer is free for up to 20 analysis queries per organization per day (organization-level limit).
Seller details
Google LLC
Mountain View, CA, USA
1998
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https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-vm
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