# Connect Your Cloud Accounts to Pulumi in Minutes

DevFeed: [Connect Your Cloud Accounts to Pulumi in Minutes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/connect-your-cloud-accounts-to-pulumi-in-minutes-18994.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.pulumi.com/blog/connect-your-cloud-accounts-to-pulumi-in-minutes/>)

Author: Levi Blackstone

Published: 2026-07-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Pulumi](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/pulumi.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-cloud.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [esc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esc.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/governance.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/insights.md>), [openid-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openid-connect.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [pulumi-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pulumi-cloud.md>)

## AI overview

Pulumi introduces a Connect cloud accounts wizard for discovering and onboarding AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, and Google Cloud projects in a single guided flow. It automates OIDC setup, creates Pulumi ESC environments, and applies discovery scans and policy packs.

## Source excerpt

Pulumi Insights gives you visibility and governance across your entire cloud footprint, but that visibility is only as complete as the set of accounts you've connected. Until now, connecting an account meant repeating a manual setup for each one: OIDC configuration, hand-written Pulumi ESC environments, and per-account scan and policy setup. For an organization with dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, or Google Cloud projects, that per-account friction was the biggest obstacle to getting a complete picture. Today, the new Connect cloud accounts wizard removes it: discover every account in your cloud organization, select the ones you want, and onboard them all in a single guided flow. From hours of setup to a single flow The time savings are real: connecting a batch of accounts across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud takes about three minutes end to end. Setting up those same accounts with the manual per-account workflow would take hours to days. The wizard handles the entire onboarding lifecycle for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud: Bulk discovery: Authenticate once with your cloud organization and the wizard lists every account, subscription, or project you can access. Accounts that are already connected are recognized and skipped. Automatic OIDC setup: The recommended flows configure each account with short-lived credentials based on OpenID Connect (OIDC) and workload identity federation. No long-lived cloud secrets are stored in Pulumi Cloud. ESC environments, created for you: The wizard generates Pulumi ESC environments that follow the best practices from the manual OIDC guides -- environments that previously had to be authored one by one. Scans and policies from day one: By default, scheduled discovery scans and a pre-built policy pack are applied to every account as part of setup: the Pulumi Best Practices pack on the Team and Enterprise editions, or a compliance pack (CIS, or NIST 800-53 for AWS and Google Cloud) on Business Critical. Ho