Bottom line: Cloud providers are failing to deliver on their security promises, with misconfigured resources and lack of visibility leading to increased attack surfaces.
What's happening: AWS has been found to have the highest number of misconfigured resources, with 23% of its customers misconfiguring their resources, according to the 2026 Cloud Security Index. Azure has 19% of its customers misconfiguring their resources. Google Cloud has 17% of its customers misconfiguring their resources. The 2026 Cloud Security Index also found that 60% of organizations using AWS, 55% using Azure, and 52% using Google Cloud have no visibility into their cloud resources.
What to do: Review your cloud security configurations regularly and implement a cloud security posture management tool to improve visibility and reduce misconfiguration risks. TITLE: Cloud Providers Are Failing to Meet Security Expectations SUMMARY: The 2026 Cloud Security Index, published by Intruder, analyzed misconfiguration data from 1,000 organizations using AWS, 900 using Azure, and 1,100 using Google Cloud.
Bottom line: Cloud providers are failing to deliver on their security promises, with misconfigured resources and lack of visibility leading to increased attack surfaces.
What's happening: AWS has been found to have the highest number of misconfigured resources, with 23% of its customers misconfiguring their resources, according to the 2026 Cloud Security Index. Azure has 19% of its customers misconfiguring their resources. Google Cloud has 17% of its customers misconfiguring their resources. The 2026 Cloud Security Index also found that 60% of organizations using AWS, 55% using Azure, and 52% using Google Cloud have no visibility into their cloud resources.
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