Today we are launching LightPane as a distinct product from Clouds and Light. LightPane is our service for live cloud infrastructure discovery — it queries your AWS, GCP, and Azure environments in seconds and renders the results as embeddable panes that you can place on any web page.
The idea behind LightPane comes from years of working in cloud infrastructure across some of the world's largest organisations. A pattern we observed repeatedly was that people make the best decisions when they are closest to accurate, live data. The more friction we introduce — emailing reports, waiting for screen shares on an incident call, requesting console access from another team — the worse our decisions become. Data gets stale. Context gets lost. People make assumptions instead of observations.
LightPane exists to remove that friction.
Why "LightPane"
The name reflects two ideas that are central to how the service works.
Light — because the service is designed to be lightweight and fast, but also because it brings transparency. Your cloud data belongs to you. LightPane makes it visible to everyone who needs it, without requiring console access, specialist knowledge, or a per-seat license. Adding live cloud data to a web page takes a few lines of code. No agents to install. No dashboards to learn.
Pane — because each view is an embeddable component, a pane of information designed to show the right amount of data exactly where you need it. EC2 instances on an incident page. S3 buckets on a compliance document. CloudWatch alarms on a status dashboard. Each pane renders the key information as fast as possible, with expandable detail for when you need to dig deeper.
Real-time incident management
One of the most powerful applications we have seen is incident management. When a production system is degraded, the first few minutes are critical. Twenty people join a bridge call, but only one or two have console access. Everyone else waits for verbal updates or a shared screen.
With LightPane, a team can build an application status page that shows live infrastructure state — what is running, what should be running, what changed recently, and whether costs or alarms look abnormal. During an incident, everyone opens the same page in their own browser. No screen sharing. No waiting. The same live data, visible to everyone at once.
We have built a working example of this. You can see it at our incident management demo — it includes live AWS data, health analysis, CloudWatch alarms, CloudTrail changes, and cost tracking on a single page.
Multi-cloud migration visibility
Another use case that demonstrates LightPane's unique capability is cloud migration. When an organisation is moving workloads from AWS to GCP (or any combination of providers), project managers need to see what is running in the source environment and what has been provisioned in the target — without switching between two consoles.
LightPane can display infrastructure from multiple cloud providers on the same page, using a single access key. Our cloud migration demo shows live data from both AWS and GCP side by side — networking, compute, storage, serverless functions, DNS, and identity — all discovered in under five seconds.
Nothing else in the market does this. Most tools collect cloud data and lock it into their own console. LightPane puts it wherever you need it.
See it working
The panes below are live. They are discovering real data from an AWS account and a GCP project right now, as you read this page.