We Cut Compliance Costs by 40% Using Pulumi 3.140 and Chef 18 for Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP Modern multi-cloud environments offer unmatched flexibility, but they also introduce complex compliance challenges. For our team managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and GCP, manual policy enforcement and fragmented tooling were driving up compliance costs by 22% year-over-year. By integrating Pulumi 3.140 for infrastructure as code (IaC) and Chef 18 for configuration management, we reduced total compliance-related spend by 40% in just 6 months. The Compliance Pain Points of Multi-Cloud Before our overhaul, we relied on native AWS Config and GCP Security Command Center for compliance monitoring, paired with custom scripts to enforce policies across both clouds. This setup had three critical flaws: Fragmented visibility: We had to toggle between two separate dashboards to audit resources, leading to 12+ hours of manual reporting weekly.…