Hey everyone! 👋 I've been running Prisma Cloud Compute (PCC) in our mobile app backend environment for about three months now, after a pretty long stint with Aqua Security. I wanted to share some hands-on impressions, especially around the operational feel and the policy engine.
The big win for us was definitely the **defender footprint**. It's noticeably lighter on our nodes compared to Aqua's enforcer. Our performance graphs, especially around container startup times and node memory, look happier. The installation felt cleaner, and it seems to integrate with the underlying runtime in a less intrusive way. So on pure resource overhead, it's a thumbs up.
However, I’m hitting a wall with **policy granularity**. Coming from Aqua, I feel like I've lost some surgical control. A concrete example: with Aqua, I could write a runtime policy to block a specific binary execution *only* if it originated from a particular vulnerable package in the image. In PCC, my rules feel more like broad strokes. The vulnerability management is great, but the runtime control for containers feels more all-or-nothing for a given behavior.
Has anyone else made this switch? I’m particularly curious about:
* Workarounds or pattern-matching tricks in PCC’s runtime rules to get closer to that fine-grained control.
* Whether you leaned more into their CI/CD scan policies to compensate.
* If the *warmth* of the UI/UX (which I generally prefer over Aqua’s) eventually made up for the perceived control gap.
I’m deep in the beta for their new mobile app security module, so I’m hoping some of the control evolves there. For now, the trade-off is lighter ops overhead vs. feeling like my hands are a bit tied during incident response.
Happy testing!
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