Launch Week 9 is a wrap!

TL;DR? We've got you covered.

Our announcements this week span the breadth of Turbot offerings:

Guardrails with AI

Intelligent Assessment: Natural language Guardrails powered by AI

Guardrails now supports AI-powered policy creation using natural language prompts, allowing you to define custom governance logic by simply describing what you want to check. Create sophisticated policies with conditional requirements and multi-condition assessments, such as checking if S3 versioning is enabled and MFA delete is configured only when specific tags are present. This feature uses your own AI credentials from OpenAI or Anthropic, ensuring complete control over your data while leveraging advanced AI models for governance automation.

Intelligent Fixes: Step-by-step remediation guidance powered by AI

When control alerts trigger, Intelligent Fixes automatically generates comprehensive remediation guidance tailored to your specific resource context and situation. The AI-powered feature provides multiple resolution pathways including Guardrails Quick Actions, cloud provider CLI commands, and Terraform plans, eliminating friction between detecting governance issues and actually fixing them. This bridges the gap for application teams who need detailed, step-by-step instructions to resolve misconfigurations while maintaining governance consistency across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and GitHub.

Intelligent Summaries: Easy to understand cloud governance posture

Policy packs with complex calculated logic and multiple interrelated policies can now be automatically summarized using AI to explain their combined governance objectives and expected behavior. Intelligent Summaries analyze collection of policies and generate clear explanations of what each policy pack accomplishes, how policies work together, and what enforcement actions will be taken. This saves teams significant time reviewing conditional logic manually while providing instant understanding of governance posture across all supported platforms.

AI for Developers

Build Tables and Controls For Mods Faster with AI

Comprehensive AI development guides for Steampipe, Powerpipe, and Tailpipe now provide battle-tested prompts and workflows that dramatically accelerate plugin and mod development. These guides include copy-paste ready prompts, specific instructions for improved AI accuracy, and validation workflows using MCP servers for automated testing. The approach leverages existing code patterns in repositories, allowing AI to learn conventions and generate complete implementations with proper documentation, reducing development time from hours to minutes for new tables and controls.

Azure and GCP Perimeter Security, CIS Updates, and Enhanced Plugins

AI-assisted development has enabled one of the most comprehensive list of updates to date, including new Azure and GCP perimeter security mods, updated compliance frameworks like CIS v5 for AWS, and enhanced cost optimization controls. This release delivers 2 new perimeter mods, 8 new cost controls, 4 compliance framework updates, 7 new AWS tables with SDK v2 migration, and expanded log analysis capabilities across Tailpipe.

Scaling Tailpipe and Pipes

Improved Tailpipe collection performance & control

Tailpipe's latest enhancements deliver precise date range controls for targeted log collection, optimized hive partitioning that improves query performance on large datasets, and configurable memory limits to prevent resource exhaustion during intensive operations. The update also includes automatic plugin crash detection with detailed reporting. These improvements provide better control over resource usage while enabling faster analysis of large-scale log data across cloud environments.

Larger instance types & storage size in Pipes

Pipes now offers flexible instance sizing with the new db1.medium option (4 CPUs, 16GB RAM) to bridge the gap between small and shared instances for demanding workloads. Organizations can now customize storage size independently from compute instance type, allowing right-sizing of deployments based on specific data requirements. Users can change instance types on demand without recreating workspaces, keeping all data while optimizing performance and costs for varying analytical needs.

Annual SOC 2 Type II Compliance for Turbot Guardrails & Pipes

Both Turbot Guardrails and Turbot Pipes have successfully completed their annual SOC 2 Type II examination for 2025, reinforcing our commitment to security and compliance.

Cloud Governance

Introducing CloudGovernance.org: practical resources for enterprise cloud governance

CloudGovernance.org launches as a free comprehensive library of guides, frameworks, and proven resources designed to bridge the gap between cloud visibility and organizational action. The platform addresses the common challenge where teams have excellent monitoring tools but struggle to systematically implement governance changes at enterprise scale. The Cloud Governance Library includes foundational guides, templates, checklists, and the "Herding Clouds" newsletter that delivers real-world practitioner insights into actionable organizational strategies for successful cloud governance transformation.

How to Herd Clouds and Influence People

Follow Gary, a cloud architect at Goliath Federal Bank, as he navigates the hidden complexity of enterprise cloud transformation beyond just technical challenges. The How to Herd Clouds and Influence People book reveals the untold story of organizational politics, shadow IT teams, and building trust across siloed divisions while creating flexible guardrails that enable innovation rather than stifling it. Drawing from real-world experiences with enterprise customers, it addresses the common frustration where teams have excellent visibility into cloud issues but struggle with the organizational challenge of actually making systematic change happen at scale.

The B-sides

These were the Launch Week 9 hits, but plenty of other good things happened during this cycle. Check the B-sides for details!

And that's a wrap!

Launch Week 9 represents a significant expansion of our cloud governance and security capabilities, with some exciting new features with AI. And there's more to come. We hope you enjoy the current batch of new products and features, let us know how it goes, and stay tuned for our next Launch Week in a few months!