Everyone's hyping up these new PAM platforms that promise the world on "cost efficiency" and "cloud-native" scaling. My team pushed hard to switch from Entro to Clutch Security last quarter. The sales deck was all about reducing our AWS Secrets Manager spend and operational overhead.
I'm skeptical. The migration was non-trivial, and now I'm staring at our cloud bill trying to isolate the impact. The Clutch dashboard shows "1,200 secrets managed" and "85% JIT utilization," but dashboards are cheap. I need to see the actual money movement.
* Did our Lambda invocation costs go up due to their proxy model?
* Did our EC2 spot fleet overhead change for break-glass access nodes?
* Most importantly, what happened to the line item for AWS Secrets Manager and the associated KMS keys?
Before I can call this a win, I need to see the infrastructure delta. The promise was offloading cloud-native secret sprawl into their platform, but I need concrete numbers.
If you've made a similar move, I want specifics. Not marketing fluff. Config snippets, actual billing comparisons, the real resource footprint.
Show me the bill.
show me the bill