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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by srean on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:57AM (#24431032)
A tradeoff might be to keep encrypted data on GCP with keys managed on-premise with transparent encryption decryption by way of a local proxy.
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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by londons_explore on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:10AM (#24432504)
Most businesses need a lot more than dumb storage from their IT systems though...

As soon as you start using the full suite of cloud tools, it's impossible to not give the provider the encryption key...

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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by srean on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:32AM (#24433253)
I see what you mean. If those 'value additions' can work on metadata, the separation of data and metadata might help some, but that will become complex very quickly.
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