Microsoft Defender for Cloud

By Microsoft ยท Cloud security

About Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft's cloud security posture and workload protection for Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.

Details

  • Works with AWS

    Yes

Not enough info yet on free plan or free tier, open source, has an API, works with Kubernetes. Check the tool's own site.

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