AWS IAM Access Analyzer vs C3M Cloud Control

AWS IAM Access Analyzer helps teams set, verify, and refine permissions toward least privilege. It examines external, internal, and unused access to AWS resources. External analysis monitors for new or changed permissions that allow public or cross-account access; internal findings identify users and roles with access to S3, DynamoDB, or RDS resources. Unused-access findings can identify unused roles, IAM user keys and passwords, services, and actions. The service can generate fine-grained IAM policies from activity captured in AWS CloudTrail logs, and policy validation supplies security warnings, errors, general warnings, and best-practice suggestions. Custom policy checks can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines before deployment. The analyzer also provides last-accessed information for services and actions from select AWS services and connects with AWS Security Hub CSPM and Amazon EventBridge for findings workflows. AWS says automated reasoning technology applies mathematical logic to assess permissions. Policy validation, policy generation, and external access analysis are provided at no additional charge. Other listed charges include $0.0020 per custom policy-check API call, $0.20 per IAM role or user per month for unused-access analysis, and $9.00 per resource monitored per Region per month for internal access analysis.

C3M Cloud Control is an agentless platform for cloud security, identity and entitlement governance, and compliance assurance. It continuously assesses multicloud infrastructure for security and compliance risks and can remediate them. Access Control manages identity entitlements and enforces least privilege, with inventory, access-key monitoring, excessive-permission detection, audit timelines, policy enforcement, and one-click remediation for unused entitlements. Playbooks for AWS, GCP, and Azure can remediate resources, notify administrators, create incident tickets, and send violations to SIEM tools. Customers can add custom actions using cloud functions in languages including Java, Node.js, and Python. Compliance monitoring evaluates resources against PCI, GDPR, NIST, CIS, FedRAMP, HITRUST, and HIPAA, and supports custom packages. Its IaC module scans Terraform templates; support for CloudFormation, ARM, Kubernetes, and other IaC templates is described as coming soon. It offers a free assessment for up to two cloud accounts. The main plan’s price is available on request.