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It's not reliable, and presenting it as-such shows a lack of understanding of basic security posture.

Don't take my word for it, watch the news in <6 months and we'll certainly see it get bypassed.

Maybe that's a hot take, but it's probably still safer than how things are often done in reality when employees want to "get something done" and sign up for random services, download their own software or other variants of shadow IT.

Completely agree.

This posture is applicable while we ease out of what I'm calling the "golden era" (loose restrictions on access with limited consequence) but one of the reasons I am pedantic and bearish about solutions like this is that they too have a short lifespan that we can already estimate the expiration date of.

Aren't a large number of massive data leaks caused by some Marketing person setting up an AWS instance, and dumping the corporate DB into it?

I wouldn't say that's a "Marketing person" failure mode, there's enough open buckets, public mongodb or Elastic instances with wrong credentials.

Fair point.

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