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Alternately, IAM brings AWS customers a lot of value.

Do you think the average enterprise could develop a unified system for access control to cloud resources that would have a prayer of being secure? Would the average enterprise be able to develop such a system (secure or not) that wouldn't bring work to halt?

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The author says as much. The title is clickbait, but the article basically says you're locked into AWS no matter what, and arguing over stuff like Lambda lock-in is pointless considering the other avenues AWS already has you on (like IAM).

The average enterprise would buy something like SailPoint which claims to provide IAM for tons of things including AWS.

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