You Need Context for Cloud Governance. Not Tagging

There is the cloud environment you think you have: the pristine, perfectly organized architecture living in your Terraform repository. And then there is the cloud environment you actually have. The real world situation is usually a tangled web of undocumented Lambda functions, orphaned staging environments, and untagged EC2 instances. When leadership asks, "What exactly is running in our cloud right now?", very few teams can give a confident, accurate answer. This is the workload discovery problem. Until you solve it and map the reality of your infrastructure, everything downstream from cost optimization, compliance, security posture, to incident response is built on guesswork. The Infrastructure Sprawl Problem Cloud environments grow organically. A dev spins up an EC2 instance for a quick test. A contractor deploys a Lambda function that nobody documents. An old staging environment keeps running because nobody remembers who owns it or what depends on it. Six months later, your AWS acc