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How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Container Image Vulnerability Scans
Episode 111 of The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo dives into a quiet but costly trend: cloud providers are now billing per container image vulnerability scan. Lucas and Luna unpack how AWS, Azure, and GCP have shifted scanning from a free security feature to a metered cost, with charges ranging from $0.01 to $0.05 per scan per image, and how a mid-sized fintech saw its monthly security bill jump from $200 to $4,700. They explore the business logic behind the pricing—infrastructure costs, false-positive volume, and vendor lock-in—and what enterprises can do to control spend, like using…
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