Tag: Cloud
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What Cloud Storage Egress Actually Costs in 2026
Cloud storage egress in 2026 sits as the line item that surprised the budget in 2020, that surprised the budget in 2023, and that will surprise the budget in 2026. The egress fee for moving data out of AWS, or Azure, or GCP runs at $0.05 to $0.12 per gigabyte, the typical enterprise moves 100+…
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The State of IAM in Q2 2026
The state of IAM in Q2 2026 amounts to the state of an industry that has been promising identity first security for a decade and that has finally started to deliver on the promise. The delivery runs in the maturity of the cloud identity providers, the federation standards, the privileged access management market, the non…
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A Field Guide to the DevSecOps Pipeline
A field guide to the DevSecOps pipeline in 2026, with the gates that actually catch the real bugs, the gates that are pure theatre, and the order that the gates should fire in without slowing the team down.
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The AI Music Industry Lawsuit Wave Explained
The AI music lawsuit wave that started in 2024 has been building through 2025 and into 2026. The labels, the publishers, the individual musicians, the rightsholders, all suing the model makers, the platform users, the streaming services, the wave that will reshape the industry.
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State of the Cloud: Q2 2026
Q2 2026 was the quarter the cloud bill started shrinking for the first time since the public cloud existed. Here is what the numbers actually look like, and what it means for the next two years.
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A Field Guide to the CSPM Alert
CSPM alerts in 2026 amount to the most underused signal in the typical cloud security stack. The CSPM fires 100-500 alerts per day, the SOC triages maybe 10% of them, the rest sit in the queue until the queue gets purged. The field guide covers what the alerts mean, what the priority is, and what…
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A Field Guide to the IAM Policy
Most IAM policies in 2026 are written the way the IAM team learned to write them, which is to say they are written to satisfy the auditor and not the attacker. The result is a sprawl of over privileged roles, a stack of unused permissions, and a service account inventory that has not been touched…
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A Field Guide to Cloud Incident Response
Cloud incident response is not the same as on premises incident response. The console is different, the data sources are different, the legal exposure is different. Here is how to do it in 2026.
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Multi-Cloud Is Not the Answer (But You Will Do It Anyway)
Multi-cloud sits as the strategy the consulting firm sold the board in 2019 and the operations team has been trying to make work since. The pitch was vendor lock in avoidance, the cost optimisation, the resilience. The reality sits as the second cloud account nobody can fully account for, the second identity system nobody wants…
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The Shadow Cloud Problem Nobody Is Mapping
Shadow cloud refers to the cloud accounts, cloud workloads, and cloud services that the enterprise has lost track of. The lost cloud accounts, the cloud workloads that the enterprise does not know exist, the cloud services the team signed up for with a credit card and forgot. The shadow cloud problem in 2026 ranks as…