Powerpipe vs Prowler Cloud

Powerpipe is a free, open-source tool from Turbot for turning cloud infrastructure data into dashboards and security or compliance benchmarks. Prebuilt dashboards cover AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more, with views of resource quantity, cost, usage, and relationships. Benchmarks assess environments against frameworks including CIS, GDPR, NIST, PCI, and SOC 2. Users can write dashboards and benchmarks in HCL or combine existing ones, then version and share the code using Git tooling. Powerpipe serves a locally hosted web interface for filtering, grouping, pivoting, and snapshotting results. Its CLI lists and runs benchmarks and controls, and exports results in formats such as CSV, HTML, JSON, Markdown, and ASFF. It works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, or DuckDB without requiring Steampipe. Installation options include macOS, Linux, and Windows; the tool can also be self-hosted. Powerpipe Hub offers hundreds of dashboards, benchmarks, and examples. Listed uses include security and compliance monitoring, cost management, detections, and asset inventory.

Prowler Cloud is a managed platform for finding, prioritizing, and fixing cloud security risks. It covers cloud infrastructure, SaaS, Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure-as-code providers, with scheduled scans and continuous compliance. Prowler says it runs more than 2,500 checks and maps findings to over 70 compliance frameworks. Findings are ranked by severity and include step-by-step remediation guidance; Lighthouse AI can explain fixes. Integrations include Jira, Slack, email alerts, Power BI, API access, and AWS Security Hub. Connected cloud accounts use a read-only role, and Prowler says it does not write to those environments. The pricing note lists a starting price of $79/mo with annual billing; plan details list Prowler Cloud at $99 a month, billed monthly per provider account, GitHub repository, or Microsoft 365 tenant. Annual billing saves 20%. A 15-day free trial and free Apache-2.0 CLI and self-hosted Local Server options are available. Private Cloud pricing is custom and not listed.