Abstract: An example apparatus comprises memory, first instructions, and programmable circuitry to be programmed by the first instructions to associate a first portion of metadata with a first category, the metadata corresponding to a cloud resource of a cloud account, associate a second portion of the metadata with a second category, and determine a template based on the first portion being greater than the second portion, the template associated with the first category, the template including second instructions to define a target state to be enforced on the cloud account.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed that monitor and correct for configuration drift in cloud accounts by instantiating or executing machine-readable instructions to access target state configuration information from a first user account for a cloud account, onboard the cloud account at a first time to configure cloud resources based on the target state configuration information, detect a first drift between the target state configuration information and an in-use configuration state of the cloud account at a second time, log a corresponding change in the in-use configuration state relative to the target state configuration information, the first event record logged in a timeline of second event records representing second drifts of the cloud account relative to the target state configuration information, and after the detection of the first drift, change an in-use configuration of the cloud account based on the target state configuration information.