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CMD

Cloud Management Discovery

This project was a web design case study where we focused on making cloud solutions work together perfectly and helping businesses use their online tools in the best way possible. Our goal was to turn something complex into a clear, easy-to-use system.

2024

Project Info

Product Overview

Cloud Management Discovery is a strategic solution designed to help organizations analyze, optimize, and manage their cloud environments efficiently.

The goal of the platform is to simplify complex cloud ecosystems by providing visibility into infrastructure, cost optimization opportunities, and performance insights enabling businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Challenge

Dynamic Cloud Environments

Constantly changing cloud assets and services made it difficult for IT teams to maintain accurate inventory and full visibility across all public, private, and hybrid cloud providers.

Manual & Fragmented Discovery

Legacy tools required time-consuming manual scans and provided siloed views across cloud providers, hampering asset correlation and cost optimization efforts.

Data Overload & Alert Fatigue

Lack of smart filtering, severity-based sorting, and context-aware insights overwhelmed users with irrelevant alerts and noisy dashboards reducing actionability.

Limited Policy Enforcement

Inconsistent tagging, metadata mismatches, and non-centralized policy management led to security blind spots and compliance gaps across environments.

Poor User Experience & Accessibility

Older platforms featured complex UIs, slow onboarding, and limited support for accessibility standards or role-based customization for diverse teams.

Solutions

Automated, Continuous Asset Discovery

Deployed always-on, agentless scanning to catalog resources across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private clouds, updating inventories in near real-time with complete visibility.

Smart Tagging & Hierarchical Organization

Introduced automated tagging, relationship mapping, and customizable hierarchies for easy filtering by environment, owner, business unit, or cost center.

Context-Aware Dashboards & Alert Prioritization

Redesigned dashboards with severity-based sorting, business impact grouping, and noise reduction features, helping teams focus on critical issues.

Seamless Policy Integration & Automation

Integrated with configuration management and identity systems to enforce governance, automate remediation, and ensure continuous compliance.

User-Friendly, Accessible Interface

Refined UI with multi-tenant access, role-based permissions, intuitive navigation, keyboard support, and WCAG-compliant visual themes for diverse teams.

User Persona

Components

Grid system

Before After

Before

After

Results & Impact

With the redesigned CMD platform:

Accessibility considerations

What Cloud Management Discovery is

Cloud Management Discovery (CMD on the page) is framed as a strategic platform that helps organizations analyze, optimize and manage cloud environments. The Product Overview says the goal is visibility into infrastructure, cost opportunities and performance insights so teams can make clearer, data-driven decisions. The hero also calls this a web design case study about making cloud solutions work together. Dated 2024.

The problems the page describes

Dynamic cloud environments — changing assets across public, private and hybrid providers made accurate inventory hard.

Manual, fragmented discovery — legacy tools needed slow manual scans and gave siloed views.

Data overload and alert fatigue — dashboards without smart filtering or severity sorting drowned teams in noise.

Limited policy enforcement — inconsistent tagging and decentralised policy created security and compliance gaps.

Poor UX and accessibility — complex UIs, slow onboarding and weak role-based customization.

What the design work addressed

Automated, continuous asset discovery — always-on, agentless scanning across AWS, Azure, GCP and private clouds with near real-time inventory.

Smart tagging and hierarchy — automated tagging, relationship mapping and filters by environment, owner, business unit or cost center.

Context-aware dashboards and alert prioritisation — severity sorting, business-impact grouping and noise reduction so teams focus on critical issues.

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