Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage.
Last July it started developing the tool that would become Cloud Custodian. On 19th April, 2016 it announced at an AWS event in Chicago that it was making Cloud Custodian tool available as open source on GitHub.
“Cloud Custodian is a rules engine that lets us define policies to be well-managed in AWS. You can [determine] a number infrastructure resources and every organization has a set of policies to be achieved around those resources,” - Kapil Thangavelu, technical fellow and primary developer of the Cloud Custodian project.
