Hey everyone, been running Rapid7 InsightCloudSec for about three months now after a couple of years on Aqua. We were primarily looking for something that fit better into our broader RevOps and dev workflow, not just a pure-play container scanner. The shift has been... interesting.
The biggest win for us is the unified view. InsightCloudSec pulls in our cloud assets, containers, and even some serverless stuff into a single graph. In Aqua, we felt like we were juggling separate consoles for CSPM and CWP. Here, tracing a potential vulnerability from a public S3 bucket back through to the container image and the CI/CD pipeline that built it is actually straightforward. The automation workflows (they call them "Jelly") are a game-changer for auto-remediation. We've set up simple ones to auto-tag non-compliant resources and shut down dev instances that are left running over weekends, which our finance team already loves.
That said, the transition wasn't all smooth. The learning curve is steeper. Aqua's interface felt more immediate for container scanning. InsightCloudSec is incredibly powerful, but it's a broader platform, so it took our team a bit to find their way around. Also, while the out-of-the-box policies are good, fine-tuning them to match our internal policies required more upfront time than we anticipated. The reporting is robust, but building the exact dashboards we wanted for different audiences (security vs. engineering leadership) took some tweaking.
From a data quality and integration standpoint, it's been solid. The API feeds nicely into our internal reporting dashboards, which was a key requirement. We haven't deeply used all the modules yet, but the cost governance features are next on our list. Curious if anyone else has made a similar switch? Would love to hear about how you handled the policy migration or if you're using the cost management bits.