Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform

Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform

7 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

85 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	The Aqua Platform is an integrated Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), that prioritizes risk and automates prevention while also focussing on detection and response across the lifecycle. It aims to stop current and prevent future cloud native attacks.	$10,188 per year
Microsoft Defender for Cloud	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.	N/A

Pricing

Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Editions & Modules

Team: $10,188
per year
Advanced: $25,188
per year
Enterprise: Tiered Pricing

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Considered Both Products	Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform WH William Huang Lead Security Architect Chose Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform is easy to implement and manage compare the Dome9. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud We haven't really, I mean we've used Google's options, but not really. We've just gotten demos really. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud We were one of the first ones to deploy when Microsoft released it, so it's hard to compare, but what we hear from competitors, the fact that Microsoft can see the full ecosystem using this product makes it a lot better as compared to using a third party tool. So it's the ease … Incentivized Helpful? SG Sharan Garlapati Technical Sales Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud I was trained on AWS originally, but I'm starting to Azure more and more in Microsoft. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Evaluated between cost. I just think it integrates better with the Microsoft stack and I mean, I think just cost from just that perspective and being the one pane of glass, I think that's enough. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Had some coverage gaps and was more expensive compared to native Azure security controls, such as Defender for Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Trend Micro Cloud One - Application Security, AWS Security Hub and Wiz Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud I believe Microsoft Defender for Cloud stacks up well against the other tools we looked at. It is native to the Azure platform and provides the same insights as the other tools. We selected Microsoft Defender for Cloud because it integrates well with the Azure resources and … Incentivized Helpful? HP Helia Pimenta sales Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender is a robust cloud security solution, but Prisma is Comprehensive cloud-native security platform with full lifecycle security Incentivized Helpful? HP Himanshu Pawar Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Cloud has a better range of functionality across the board. In terms of database, reliability, security solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud We use Microsoft Defender for Cloud as an integration of Defender 365 and collect all the incident into one dashboard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Cloud offered a more integrated and comprehensive solution for our multi-cloud environment, integrating well with our security and compliance needs Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Cloud is definitely the choice with the latest market trend and attacks that are currently happening. Microsoft has been able to safe guard a lot after the recent serious attacks happening globally in the digital world. There is a trust in this software … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Forcepoint ONE, Ivanti Endpoint Security for Endpoint Manager and Tenable Nessus Incentivized Helpful? Dipak Ugale System Integration Consultant Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud There is the several ways to protect the applications and lot more tools available in the market. Most commonly we used Crowd strike Falcon for endpoint detection and response capabilities. McAfee endpoint protection also provide broad range of security features. Best … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud We used to use Symantec and McAfee. It's been mostly defenders since, gosh, the last eight to 10 years. So we're a small organization. We don't have a lot of folks, so single-painted glass is really important to be able to see the whole environment in a single place. And the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud When we purchase this data fund, we check with not competition and we decided to purchase these tools because it's strong and we have a good relationship with Microsoft. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 Incentivized Helpful? Apoorv Tiwari Cloud Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud It is very good in comparison to other products that we have used. Its price is very effective and attractive, and it also provides good security policies. threat intelligence is also good and user protection is also very much better, and it also serves new updates as and when … Incentivized Helpful? SL Shreyas Limaye Senior Cloud Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud It provides great Integration with the existing resources. As we don’t have to worry about the compatibility of the product with our resources. Incentivized Helpful? PK Parth Khemka Azure Consultant Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender has the benefit of all the integration, included licensing for defender for server and being able to start small and grow. Wiz licensing was too expensive, lacking features like an EDR making it a less favorable solution Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Purview Data Governance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Cloud supports the hybrid resource assessment which includes Non-Azure Resources, Aws resources, gcp resources. So it is flexible to asses different cloud platforms. Also its pricing is comparatively affordable then Other cloud security tools available in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender for Cloud (previously known as Azure Security Center) is a more comprehensive and extensive security solution. Currently, threat analytics make up only a small portion of the whole picture. It encourages a comprehensive picture of the cloud environment across all of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender for Cloud is definitely less complex a solution and more turn-key. We found that it was easier to grab the information we needed, faster than the Palo solution. In addition, accounting loved the fact that it was less expensive. At the time of implementation, Palo's … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	6.6 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Usability	6.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Excellent tool for identifying Cloud security issues such as vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. The complaince scanning ability is perfect for enterprise organization to maintain complaince based off various complaince programs. Incentivized Avinash Upadhyaya K R DevOps Engineer Read full review	If you need to proceed with pay as you go service then go ahead with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This could be expensive in the long run but if the organization usage is slightly less than then this would suite the purpose. Also, it has the latest threat updates, so you're future proof in terms of potential treats. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	seamless integration with GitHub, Jfrog, etc Easy configuration of security policy detailed instructions regarding finding of Vulnerabilities Incentivized WH William Huang Lead Security Architect Read full review	Automation is crucial to managing sprawl and the additional complexity that comes with it. SOC management workbooks and process automation give significant flexibility. The Security posture score and Security Alerts are neatly centralized and offer me crucial information quickly. Defender for Cloud avoids the common compromise of simplicity for completeness (former Azure Security Center). The security warnings and advice go into great detail while remaining current and useful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The UI/UX of the Aqua platform has several issues, especially with the sign up/in flow, authentication, alerts and display of results Missing a few prominent notification channels for alerts such as Datadog, Webhooks Lacks complete granularity in RBAC with the ability to set permissions based on the cloud Some parts of the cocumentation for connecting an Oracle Cloud account is not up to update or clear Incentivized Avinash Upadhyaya K R DevOps Engineer Read full review	UI/UX. It can get a little messy when navigating around with all the flyouts in the Azure portal which can be frustrating, particularly when under time pressure. The query languages for the queries and workbooks are another language that needs to be learned - it would be nice to have kept it closer to T-SQL or something like that to minimize the need to learn new syntax. Adding cost estimations to the security recommendations would really improve the experience. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It is a great product that integrates nicely when running an Azure platform and even multi-cloud environment. Not looking for point-solutions but a suite that answers most requirements. It is very comfortable being able to use KQL, workbooks and automation that is native to the azure platform Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	The UI and UX of the platform requires some work since the platform is not for all screen sizes and the experience with certain features such as authentication and creating alerts is not great. The session times out while performing an action and having to repeat the entire action once again, which is not a great experience. Adding notification channels while creating the alerts is not seamless. But the platform has good UX with some great documentation for integrations along with the ability to customise dashboards. Incentivized Avinash Upadhyaya K R DevOps Engineer Read full review	Compliance mapping capabilities of the software and reporting. Ease in deployment and implementation. Seamless integration of the software with cloud and other third party applications. The software ensures quick incident response and avilability of ready to help customer services providers. User interface of the product is very friendly. CM Celine Muthoni CMO Chief Marketing Officer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform is easy to implement and manage compare the Dome9. Incentivized WH William Huang Lead Security Architect Read full review	I believe Microsoft Defender for Cloud stacks up well against the other tools we looked at. It is native to the Azure platform and provides the same insights as the other tools. We selected Microsoft Defender for Cloud because it integrates well with the Azure resources and gives the needed insight, security alerts and recommendations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Identified issues with our cloud platforms, preventing security exploits on our platforms Incentivized Avinash Upadhyaya K R DevOps Engineer Read full review	Ensuring compliance with data protection regulations can prevent costly fines and legal issues, positively impacting ROI. Effective cloud resource protection can optimize cloud spending and resource utilization, ultimately reducing cloud infrastructure costs. The subscription costs associated with Defender for Cloud can add to an organization's operational expenses, impacting ROI. Smaller organizations may find the feature set and complexity of Defender for Cloud unnecessary, potentially overinvesting in security solutions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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