Hi everyone, I’ve been tasked with helping my team choose a cloud security tool, and I’m honestly a bit lost in the weeds. We’re primarily on AWS, and I’m trying to understand the real-world difference between using something like Prisma Cloud’s CNAPP and sticking with the native AWS Security Hub.
On paper, both seem to cover compliance and threat detection. But I keep hearing that “single pane of glass” and “agentless scanning” from Prisma Cloud are big advantages. My question is less about the feature checklist and more about actual results.
For those who have used both, which one actually caught more *real* threats that mattered? I’m thinking of things like:
- A misconfigured S3 bucket that was genuinely at risk, not just a minor policy deviation.
- Catching a suspicious API call or IAM activity that wasn’t just noise.
- Identifying a vulnerable container image before it hit production.
Security Hub is appealing because it’s already there and integrates natively, but I worry we might miss things. Prisma Cloud seems more comprehensive but also more complex and costly. Was the extra layer truly worth it for your team in terms of stopping actual problems? Any examples from your own experience would be so helpful.
Thanks for guiding a newbie through this jungle of options.