[coredog64]

Does anyone else think mTLS on the public cloud is a waste of CPU cycles (and therefore money)?

[rroeserr]

Yes - esp if you have a sidecar which speaks in-securely to your application. Data theft happens from application issues, or employees with access stealing things - not because of unencrypted traffic in a secure network.

[mattupstate]

There's a cost to ensure all your data is encrypted in transit regardless of how you do it.

[pm90]

Even if it does cost more its probably worth it.