Lucas and Luna dig into the newest cloud cost line item that's catching engineering teams off guard: per-scan pricing for container image vulnerability analysis. Since major providers rolled out integrated scanning as a metered service in early 2026, a typical mid-stage startup running fifty daily builds on AWS ECR can rack up an extra $18,000 a year. The hosts trace how this fee evolved from free bundled feature to line-item charge, compare the three big providers' pricing (AWS at $0.01 per image scan, Azure at $0.009, GCP at $0.012), and debate whether the charge actually improves security posture or just shifts compliance costs. They also offer two practical workarounds: caching scan results for base images and using third-party scanners that don't meter per invocation. Specific, actionable, and grounded in real 2026 cloud architecture decisions.

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