[twistedpair]

I'd push back on that norm.

I listened to a vendor pitch for a product that would need access to my cloud assets. They wanted me to export auth keys as strings and hand them over, with super high access rights. I laughed and pointed out OIDC, Workload Identity Federation, cross account user identities... etc as more secure methods that didn't require handing over any secrets.

Multi-billion dollar vendor; their engineer just gave me a blank stare as if the notion was completely novel. It's not. None of the products/integrations I build require a customer to share their cloud creds to work w/ their cloud assets.

2020 is calling...