Cloud environments accumulate forgotten, unmanaged assets at scale, abandoned virtual machines, orphaned storage buckets, stale IAM roles, idle cloud functions, and these ‘zombie assets’ quietly expand the attack surface without triggering conventional security controls. Attackers can discover and exploit these resources through cloud enumeration techniques, often accessing sensitive data or establishing lateral movement footholds before defenders are aware the asset exists. Agentic AI is demonstrating practical value as an answer to the visibility gap, autonomously discovering and classifying these assets at a speed and scale that manual audit cycles cannot match, a signal that cloud hygiene is becoming an AI-augmented discipline.