CloudQuery
Open-source ELT platform that syncs cloud infrastructure into SQL databases
CloudQuery suits platform and security teams that want their AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud inventory queryable in the PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Snowflake they already run. Its plugin-based ELT syncs materialize hundreds of cloud tables on a schedule with incremental state, so compliance, cost, and posture checks run as SQL over fresh snapshots. The catch is operational: pricing counts rows synced per year with annual billing, every sync needs a CloudQuery Cloud login, and throughput stays bounded by source-API rate limits. If you need live ad-hoc lookups instead of snapshots, choose Steampipe; if you want a managed no-code pipeline, choose Fivetran or Airbyte.[1][2][3]
Good fit. Platform teams standardized on the warehouse will love it: CloudQuery puts cloud inventory where analysts, dashboards, and access controls already live, in PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Snowflake.[1]
Keep in mind. Row-volume annual billing means cost scales with estate size and sync frequency, with no public per-month figure, and every setup including trials requires a CloudQuery Cloud account login.[1]
Repository review signals: unknown status, very stale · Observed October 3, 2026.
Sources and editorial review
Source research. Reviewed on October 9, 2026. Written by Sanjib Sah. AI assisted; reviewed by a human editor.
We have not run or tested this product.
One community aggregate (G2 listing showing 5.0/5 from 2 reviews) plus one vendor-published customer interview used as background only. No independently quotable Reddit or G2 user reports were accessible. G2 review text was not retrievable, so no quotation or sentiment finding is drawn from it. The vendor interview is vendor-selected and Reddit-specific. The sample is too thin to generalize user satisfaction.
- CloudQuery: The ELT Framework for the Modern Stack
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official homepage: open-source ELT positioning, 80+ sources, 20+ destinations, YAML scheduling every 2 minutes to weekly, incremental state, 2,000+ policy packs, MCP server, open-core self-hosting, row-per-year pricing, named customers, Fivetran/Airbyte/Matillion/Hightouch comparison framing.
- CloudQuery Pricing
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official pricing: rows synced per year on annual billing varying by tier, volume, frequency, and support; free trial and discounts; support tiers to 24/7 with SLAs; FAQs confirm self-hosting, closed-source integrations, mandatory Cloud login, and source-API rate-limit bounds.
- Steampipe vs CloudQuery: Architecture and Trade-offs
official · Observed October 9, 2026 · Published August 23, 2026
Vendor architecture comparison dated August 2026: live-query federation versus materializing ELT, 38 versus 2,789 AWS tables, CloudQuery strengths in scheduled/incremental syncs and history, guidance to choose Steampipe for point-in-time questions.
- CloudQuery Reviews on G2
community · Observed October 9, 2026
G2 listing observed with aggregate 5.0/5 from 2 reviews; no review text, author names, or dates were accessible in the rendered page, so no quotation or finding is drawn beyond the aggregate and its small sample.