AWS IAM Access Analyzer vs Veza SSPM

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.

Veza SSPM governs identity access, permissions, and configuration risks across SaaS applications in real time. It continuously discovers users, administrators, and service accounts across major SaaS platforms, then flags settings such as missing MFA, exposed OAuth tokens, and open administrator privileges. Role-based context helps identify overprivileged identities, which the product can remediate. Connections with IAM, IGA, and ITSM platforms support issue resolution and automated governance workflows. Veza generates real-time, audit-ready reports describing access governance across SaaS applications. Its integration catalog spans SaaS, identity, cloud, data, and HR systems; examples include Okta, OpenAI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and Google Drive. The Open Authorization API provides a route for custom application connections. Veza states that SSPM has SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications and complies with GDPR and CCPA. It is offered through web and API access, with pricing and custom demonstrations handled by request.