Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks vs Sonrai Cloud Permissions Firewall

Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management product for finding and reducing identity risks. It scans AWS, Azure, and GCP for lingering administrative privileges, privilege escalation, permission gaps, broad blast radii, and cross-account access. Detections cover users, roles, groups, policies, EC2 instances, and Lambda functions. Access Insights shows which resources an entity can reach and which principals can reach them directly or indirectly. Remediation options include narrower policy suggestions, Datadog Workflows, cloud-console links, Terraform-generated GitHub pull requests, and Jira issues. AWS IAM Access Analyzer can supply unused-access findings for policy recommendations and permission-gap detections. Scanning is agentless, and Datadog says snapshots remain within the customer environment. Standard permission-gap detections cover 90 days; Access Analyzer can use 180- or 360-day periods. CSM Pro costs $10 a month per CSM host, while Enterprise costs $25 a month per host. A 14-day trial covers the product suite.

Sonrai Cloud Permissions Firewall monitors privileged permissions for identities across AWS, Azure and GCP. It covers human users, service principals, agents and managed identities, removing sensitive permissions that are no longer used, quarantining inactive role assignments and enforcing default deny. Permissions on Demand routes restricted-access requests through approval in ChatOps and updates the policy afterward. The web service uses read-only, top-level cloud access to collect metadata and does not install cloud agents. Onboarding occurs at the AWS, Azure or GCP organisation level, bringing in every account, subscription or project; controls can then be applied selectively. Sonrai describes unified enforcement and one audit trail across the three clouds. Available options include integrations with Slack, Teams and email, enterprise SSO, just-in-time access, third-party access lockdown, identity quarantine and other remediation controls. Support is provided by email, phone and chat. A 14-day trial requires a business email. Plans list $150 a month for 10–50 accounts and $15,000 a year for startup pricing; 50+ accounts use custom pricing.