Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does

If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles across providers have almost nothing in common. Here’s what the data looks like. How risk differs across cloud providers

The article reports that Intruder’s 2026 Cloud Security Index analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that each cloud provider exhibits distinct and largely non-overlapping risk profiles. This highlights that multi-cloud environments introduce heterogeneous security failure modes rather than a single uniform risk pattern. From a RealGround perspective, this implies that AI systems and agents deployed across different cloud providers inherit those provider-specific misconfiguration risks as part of their broader supply chain, requiring differentiated controls and validation per environment. Practically, organizations should perform cloud-specific AI security readiness assessments and maintain an AI-focused supply chain/SBOM view that accounts for configuration baselines and drift across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.