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Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Secret Rotation Frequency
Episode 107 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: per-secret rotation fees. Lucas and Luna examine how AWS, Azure, and GCP are starting to meter secrets management—charging per rotation event beyond a monthly baseline. They break down the numbers: 50,000 free rotations, $0.03 per extra rotation, and what that means for a typical Kubernetes cluster with 200 secrets rotating weekly. They also explore the engineering response—from HashiCorp Vault sidecars to in-cluster operator patterns—and ask whether this is a genuine cost-recovery move…
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