Cloudsmith for large software enterprises

Your software supply chain is under attack. Cloudsmith stops threats before they reach your pipelines.

Cloudsmith is the fully managed artifact management platform built for enterprise scale. It sits between public registries and your builds, scanning, enforcing policy, and approving every artifact your product depends on before it reaches your engineers or your customers.

The case for change

Why large software enterprises choose Cloudsmith

The enterprise problemArtifact sprawl across teams: Engineering organizations accumulate fragmented repositories, inconsistent tooling, and no single point of control. Security and compliance gaps appear wherever you have blind spots.
With CloudsmithCloudsmith becomes your single source of truth for every artifact. All dependencies, internal packages, and containers flow through one governed platform, giving you complete visibility and control across hundreds of teams and thousands of developers.
The enterprise problemSupply chain attacks are a board-level risk: A single malicious or compromised open-source package can move through your CI/CD pipeline in minutes and take weeks to contain. Manual defenses do not scale.
With CloudsmithPolicy-as-code, powered by OPA Rego, enforces your security standards automatically. Vulnerable packages are quarantined. Prohibited licenses are blocked. New CVEs trigger re-evaluation of every artifact already in your repositories, continuously, without manual intervention.
The enterprise problemSecurity incident overhead is compounding: Without full visibility into your software supply chain, every incident becomes a slow, expensive forensic exercise that pulls engineers away from development.
With CloudsmithCloudsmith maintains a complete, immutable audit trail across your entire supply chain. When something goes wrong, your team can trace every artifact, every pull, and every policy decision, cutting investigation time from days to minutes.
The enterprise problemLegacy artifact management cannot keep up: On-premise or hybrid solutions create performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and mounting maintenance overhead as engineering organizations grow.
With CloudsmithCloudsmith is built cloud-native, with elastic storage and a 600+ edge PoP global CDN. Build performance stays fast regardless of team size, geography, or artifact volume, with 99.99% uptime and zero infrastructure for you to manage.

Dependency firewall

Block threats before they enter your pipelines

Most supply chain attacks succeed because enterprises have no controlled ingestion point. Developers and CI/CD pipelines pull directly from public registries, and vulnerable or malicious packages enter builds unchecked. Cloudsmith changes that. Every external dependency passes through Cloudsmith first, inspected against your policies before it ever reaches your engineers.
  • Upstream proxying: Route all OSS registry traffic through Cloudsmith, eliminating direct exposure to npm, PyPI, Maven Central, and 30+ other public registries.
  • Automated quarantine: Packages that breach your CVE thresholds, license rules, or soak-period policies are held automatically, never promoted to production.
  • Malware detection: Cloudsmith scans every ingested artifact for known malicious patterns, protecting pipelines from typosquatting and dependency confusion attacks.
  • AI-era protection: AI agents pulling dependencies at speed amplify the risk. Cloudsmith inspects every package they request, applying the same governance rules as for human developers.

Policy-as-code enforcement

Security rules your organization defines, enforced automatically

Blanket security presets generate noise and block legitimate packages. Cloudsmith's Enterprise Policy Manager lets your security teams write precise, context-aware policies in OPA Rego and enforces them across every repository, team, and format without human gatekeeping.
  • Granular CVE thresholds: Block, quarantine, or warn based on CVSS score, EPSS probability, or specific CVE IDs, not broad severity buckets.
  • License compliance: Flag or block dependencies with GPL, AGPL, or other commercially restricted licenses before they are built into your products.
  • Soak periods: Prevent engineers from adopting packages that are too new to be trusted in production. Hold them for a defined period before promotion.
  • Continuous re-evaluation: When a new CVE is disclosed, Cloudsmith automatically re-checks every artifact already in your repositories against your standing policies.

Enterprise scale and performance

Artifact management that performs at global enterprise scale

Legacy artifact management platforms were designed for a different era. As engineering organizations scale to hundreds of teams and thousands of developers across multiple geographies, on-premise and hybrid solutions become bottlenecks. Cloudsmith is architected cloud-native from the ground up, with elastic storage and a global edge network that keeps build performance fast wherever your teams work.
  • 600+ edge PoPs: Artifacts are served from the location closest to your developers and CI/CD runners, cutting build latency regardless of geography.
  • Elastic at any volume: Storage and bandwidth scale automatically as artifact volumes grow. No capacity planning, no hardware provisioning, no maintenance windows.
  • 99.99% uptime SLA: Multi-region redundancy ensures your builds are never blocked by infrastructure downtime.
  • Zero management overhead: Cloudsmith is fully managed. Your platform engineering team gains the capability without the operational burden.

See Cloudsmith in action

Watch how Cloudsmith protects enterprise pipelines from supply chain threats, at any scale.

G2 Momentum Leader: Winter 2026

G2 recognized Cloudsmith in its Winter 2026 Momentum Grid for Repository Management Software, reflecting sustained momentum driven by customer adoption, product velocity, and enterprise relevance. Cloudsmith is rated highly by engineering and platform teams at software companies worldwide.

Talk to our enterprise team

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Further reading: supply chain security and enterprise scale

Our team writes in depth on the threats targeting enterprise software pipelines, and what you can do about them. Start here.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from enterprise engineering and security leaders evaluating Cloudsmith. Got a question not covered here? Reach out to our team.
  1. Yes, and we make the transition as smooth as possible. Our Ultra and Enterprise plans include full onboarding support and a dedicated customer success manager who works with your team through migration planning, data transfer, and pipeline reconfiguration. We have helped dozens of enterprises migrate from JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, and homegrown solutions without disrupting active build pipelines.

  2. Cloudsmith scans every package at the point of ingestion, before it enters your repositories. This is the critical difference from tools that scan after the fact. When a package is flagged, Cloudsmith can quarantine it automatically, block promotion to production environments, and alert your security team, all governed by policies you define in OPA Rego. New CVE disclosures trigger continuous re-evaluation of packages already in your repositories, so a clean package today does not become a silent liability tomorrow.

  3. Yes. Cloudsmith supports 30+ package formats natively, including Docker, npm, Maven, PyPI, NuGet, Helm, Debian, RPM, Cargo, and more. All formats are managed through a single control plane with consistent security policies, access controls, and audit logging. You do not need separate tooling or governance processes for different ecosystems.

  4. Cloudsmith is cloud-native with elastic scaling, so there is no capacity ceiling. Storage and bandwidth scale automatically as your artifact volumes grow. Our global edge network spans 600+ points of presence, ensuring fast artifact delivery to engineering teams and CI/CD runners anywhere in the world. We back this with a 99.99% uptime SLA with multi-region redundancy, so your build pipelines are never blocked by infrastructure issues.

  5. Cloudsmith's Enterprise Policy Manager uses OPA Rego to define security and compliance rules as code. Your policies are version-controlled, auditable, and applied consistently across every repository, team, and package format. You can enforce CVE thresholds, license restrictions, package age (soak periods), and custom rules based on package metadata, all automated, with no manual gatekeeping required.

  6. Cloudsmith maintains a complete, immutable audit trail of every artifact ingested, every package pulled, every policy decision made, and every user action taken across your organization. When a security incident occurs, your team can trace the blast radius quickly, identifying exactly which packages, pipelines, and environments were affected. This log data can be exported to your SIEM or observability platform for centralized monitoring.

  7. Cloudsmith integrates with your Identity Provider via SAML/SSO and SCIM. User provisioning and deprovisioning happen automatically when you add or remove users in your IdP, so there is no manual offboarding. OIDC support replaces static API keys with short-lived tokens in your CI/CD pipelines, eliminating standing credential risk. Role-based access control lets you define precise permissions across teams, repositories, and environments.

  8. Cloudsmith is designed for the AI-enabled engineering era. When AI agents write code and install dependencies at high speed and volume, your artifact management platform needs to keep pace while maintaining governance. Cloudsmith inspects every dependency AI agents request against your policies, applying the same controls as for human developers. AI-generated software does not escape your security guardrails simply because it was produced by an agent.