Pulumi is turning one of cloud governance’s biggest pain points—remediation—into an automated workflow. The infrastructure-as-code platform has introduced Pulumi Neo, an AI-powered system that identifies and fixes policy violations across multi-cloud environments. The release adds automated remediation, executive dashboards, and org-wide enforcement to Pulumi’s policy suite, now available across Team, Enterprise, and Business Critical editions.

For years, compliance and governance tools have highlighted risks across cloud estates but rarely fixed them. Platform teams routinely face thousands of violations that require painstaking manual work. In highly regulated environments, those backlogs can balloon past 100,000 issues. Pulumi is taking aim at that remediation gap with a system designed to handle scale, context, and the surrounding approval workflows.

Governance Tools Catch Violations. Neo Fixes Them.

Most policy-as-code frameworks stop non-compliant deployments but don’t touch what’s already running in the environment. Neo works differently. It analyzes misconfigurations in context, generates precise infrastructure-as-code fixes, and applies them automatically—or sends them through a configurable approval pipeline for human review.

Joe Duffy, Pulumi’s CEO and Co-founder, summed up the need: “Detection is necessary but not sufficient. Platform teams tell us they can’t keep pace with the volume of violations their tools identify. Neo closes that gap by generating and applying fixes when teams choose.”

Neo’s design acknowledges a reality facing every large cloud operation: visibility without action is no longer enough. Enterprises want faster compliance cycles, reduced security exposure, and a way to tame sprawling cloud footprints without adding headcount.

Audit-Ready Governance With Policy as Code

Customers like Spear AI are already seeing measurable impact. CEO Michael Hunter shared that auditors now prefer Pulumi’s policy packs over static documentation because code-based controls are easier to evaluate. By automating the review process, the company expects to shrink its Authority to Operate timeline from 18 months to three.

Pulumi’s policy engine supports major cloud providers and works even when organizations haven’t migrated infrastructure to Pulumi IaC. The platform includes pre-built frameworks for CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. Teams can enforce policies at deployment time, scan existing resources for misconfigurations, and feed violations into Neo to handle cleanup.

IDC: The Real Problem Isn’t Detection—It’s Capacity

Jim Mercer of IDC highlighted a growing industry-wide challenge: visibility is no longer the bottleneck. Remediation is. Teams are drowning in violation backlogs faster than they can process them. AI-powered remediation tied to policy-as-code, he said, represents a chance to push governance beyond reporting and into action.

This shift mirrors broader enterprise trends. Organizations are asking AI to automate operational drudgery, reduce risk, and clear bottlenecks that slow development. Infrastructure governance is emerging as one of the most urgent—and impactful—targets.

A Step Toward Autonomous Cloud Governance

With Neo, Pulumi is nudging the industry toward automated, self-healing cloud environments. Instead of relying on engineers to track and fix endless violations, organizations gain a system that continuously enforces compliance boundaries while maintaining human oversight where needed.

For platform and security teams stretched thin across multi-cloud estates, Neo signals a future in which governance becomes proactive, automated, and materially faster—turning compliance from a roadblock into an operational advantage.

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