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Cloudaware-ServiceNow Gap Analysis

Cloudaware supports a broader cloud object catalog, while ServiceNow uses its own CMDB taxonomy for discovered cloud resources.

Core Objects Mapping

Use this quick reference when comparing object names between Cloudaware and ServiceNow.

AWS

Cloudaware objectServiceNow object
EC2 InstanceVirtual Machine Instance
VPCCloud Network
EBS VolumeStorage Volumes
RDS InstanceCloud Database
Lambda FunctionCloud Function
S3 BucketCloud Storage
ELB Load BalancerLoad balancer
ECS ClusterECS Cluster
DynamoDB TableDynamo DB Global Table
EC2 Key PairCloud Key pair
EC2 Security GroupComputer Security Group
EC2 ImageImage

Microsoft Azure

Cloudaware objectServiceNow object
Virtual MachineVirtual Machine Instance
Virtual Machine DiskStorage Volume
Virtual NetworkCloud Network
Network SubnetSubnet
Load BalancerLoad balancer
SQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL DatabaseCloud Database
FunctionCloud Function
Resource GroupResource Group
Network Security GroupCompute Security Group
ImageImage
Storage AccountCloud Storage
SQL Virtual MachineAccountSQL Server

Google Cloud

Cloudaware objectServiceNow object
GCE InstanceVirtual Machine Instance
Storage BucketStorage Volume
GCE NetworkCloud Network
GCE ImageImage

VMware

Cloudaware objectServiceNow object
vCenter HostvCenter
vCenter DatacenterData Center
vCenter ClusterCluster
ESXi ServerESX Server
vCenter Virtual MachineVirtual Machine Instance
vCenter DatastoreDatastore
vCenter FolderFolder
vCenter NetworkNetwork
vCenter Resource PoolResource Pool

Kubernetes

Cloudaware objectServiceNow object
Kubernetes ClusterCluster
Kubernetes ServiceService
Kubernetes Cluster PodPOD
Kubernetes Cluster NodeNode

Resource Comparisons

Use these comparisons to review Cloudaware and ServiceNow discovery coverage across major cloud providers.