Amazon GuardDuty vs Aqua Security

Amazon GuardDuty monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and generates security findings for response. It analyzes CloudTrail, VPC Flow, DNS, S3, Aurora login, AWS Backup, AI workload, and runtime activity. Detection combines AI, machine learning, anomaly detection, and AWS and third-party threat intelligence. Runtime Monitoring covers EKS, ECS workloads including those on Fargate, and EC2 instances. GuardDuty can scan EC2-attached EBS volumes after suspicious activity and detect potentially harmful uploads to S3 buckets. AI Protection addresses threats such as unusual model invocations, cost harvesting, and prompt injection attempts in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker workloads. Findings can go to AWS Security Hub, EventBridge, Amazon Detective, or third-party solutions. Foundational protections require no additional security software or infrastructure to deploy and maintain. The service is pay as you go: charges depend on analyzed data and vary by source and AWS Region. New accounts can receive a 30-day trial in supported Regions, and some features are unavailable in some Regions.

Aqua Security provides hybrid security software for development workflows, cloud workloads, containers, and Kubernetes environments. Dev Security includes code-repository discovery and scanning, container-image vulnerability and risk scanning, Dynamic Threat Analysis, Infrastructure-as-Code scanning, and SBOM generation and analysis. Its pricing is based on the number of code repositories. Cloud Security covers cloud and Kubernetes workload visibility, agentless workload scanning, real-time runtime protection, drift prevention, and compliance reporting; pricing depends on workload counts such as EC2 instances, Fargate containers, and Lambda functions. The Platform plan adds end-to-end SDLC visibility, risk prioritization, contextualized risk scoring, compliance and custom reporting, and role-based access control. Listed capabilities include runtime protection, Kubernetes security, image and registry scanning, admission control, and SBOM generation. Aqua Security was founded in 2015 and lists headquarters in Boston and Ramat Gan. Pricing is available on request and there is no free plan.