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• API Stronghold Team
The True Cost of Cloud-Native Secrets Management: 2026 TCO
The per-secret pricing on AWS, Azure, and GCP is a rounding error. The real cost shows up in engineering hours, multi-cloud complexity, and breach risk that never makes it onto the cloud bill. Here's the full math.
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