# Google Now Tells Cloud Customers to Work Around Its Own Platform

- slug: google-now-tells-cloud-customers-to-work-around-its-own-platform
- date: 2026-04-01
- category: Agentics

Google shipped a platform where AI agents can extract their own service account credentials by default. Palo Alto found the proof-of-concept. The fix is a documentation footnote. Sound familiar? It should — this is the AWS IAM pattern, fifteen years later.

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