Bitdefender Security for AWS Reviews

My main use case for Bitdefender Security for AWS is the protection of EC2 instances. There is nothing else regarding this use case.

Bitdefender Security for AWS offers fantastic integration with the AWS inventory, an extremely lightweight agent, and modules that detect behavioral anomalies and provide extremely fast and accurate detections.

The integration with the AWS inventory makes my day-to-day work easier as it speeds up daily processes, simplifies those processes, saves time for the analysts in their daily work, and standardizes how we operate.

I believe the features are very good, as we have not had any type of malware issues or issues with intrusions into our machines. The performance impact was extremely low, and Bitdefender is an extremely lightweight agent that does not affect our CPU and memory consumption. Additionally, the unified GravityZone portal centralizes the information, allowing the team to manage everything in an extremely simplified, easy way.

Bitdefender Security for AWS has had a positive impact on my organization, mostly coming from the security it provides. Bitdefender is recognized as one of the best endpoints in the market and offers excellent cost-benefit, especially since we used some AWS credits, leading to a final cost that was within expectations.

I believe that one of the points that could be improved in Bitdefender Security for AWS is the integration with Fargate and Lambda functions, as we felt a lack of deeper and unified coverage for containers and serverless within the same standard licensing.

There is a learning curve for configuring exception policies in GravityZone that analysts go through, along with a need to adjust some whitelisting rules which requires good granularity to avoid opening gaps.

The implementation process and tuning of policies could be simplified and improved over time. There is room to optimize and maximize this process to reduce the complexity for implementation in a faster and more automated way.

Bitdefender Security for AWS is extremely stable.

The scalability of Bitdefender Security for AWS is great as we do not have problems with it. Since it is automated, we encounter no issues with scalability.

Customer support can be considered from two angles. The knowledge base is excellent and can solve many of the problems we have, especially with tuning policies and permissions. While Level 1 support requires a lot of information which takes time to compile, once that is overcome, the service is fast, attentive, and solves the problem.

In the past, we were not using any specific solution as we looked for alternatives in the market, so there was nothing else installed.

We use Amazon Web Services as our cloud provider.

Regarding pricing, setup costs, and licensing, the experience has been very good as we were able to unify billing with AWS. I believe the prices are aligned with what the tool delivers. There was a learning curve for configuration but we managed to get through that phase. The overall experience was good.

We have achieved return on investment as Bitdefender Security for AWS blocked a preventive attempt to execute a cryptocurrency mining script that tried to exploit a vulnerability in our application. We also saved team hours with automated deployment on the instances, reducing the man-hour cost for maintaining the tool after its implementation and parameterization.

I purchased Bitdefender Security for AWS through the AWS Marketplace.

Regarding pricing, setup costs, and licensing, the experience has been very good as we were able to unify billing with AWS. I believe the prices are aligned with what the tool delivers. There was a learning curve for configuration but we managed to get through that phase. The overall experience was good.

Before choosing Bitdefender Security for AWS, we evaluated Trend Micro and CrowdStrike Falcon. While CrowdStrike is very good, the price is more prohibitive. Trend Micro is also a strong competitor; however, we identified more with the GravityZone interface as it is more inviting and simpler. Bitdefender Security for AWS is in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, was better positioned, and presented more innovations to us.

I strongly recommend Bitdefender Security for AWS for companies that need to ensure security in IaaS without compromising performance or budget, especially if they already have an established automation culture and adopt best practices, making it one of the best cost-benefit solutions. I would rate this product nine out of ten.

The main use case I have for Bitdefender Security for AWS includes medium- to large-profile companies. In a company of that profile, I specifically use Bitdefender Security for AWS for security for all their repositories, connectivity, and their servers.

The best features that Bitdefender Security for AWS offers are its security against viruses and ransomware attacks, which are the main target in information security today.

I notice the effectiveness of these functions in practice because the evidence that Bitdefender stores within its management console allows me to have visibility of those blocks, filters, and detections that have occurred, ensuring that the work and operation of Bitdefender is carried out without problems.

Bitdefender Security for AWS has positively impacted my organization by managing to cover those companies that are developing within the trend of using the cloud, which is the vast majority. The coverage for cloud-based companies has benefited my clients and organization because I have noticed improvements in efficiency and results framed in the measurement of the security that has been achieved, in terms of the number of blocks and threat lists; this gives visibility that the functionality of the processes and their security is happening without issues.

I think Bitdefender Security for AWS could improve as it currently has an issue of stability and growth of its tools, both in the administrative and technical areas, as well as in the security levels that are being required and needed more every day.

I have been using Bitdefender Security for AWS for three or four years.

I consider Bitdefender Security for AWS to be quite a stable solution.

I think the scalability of Bitdefender Security for AWS is quite acceptable.

My experience with the technical support of Bitdefender Security for AWS has been functional and it has worked.

I did not use any other solution before Bitdefender Security for AWS.

I have noticed a return on investment from implementing Bitdefender Security for AWS because of the very simple administration, which reduces staff cost and time.

My experience with the pricing, implementation costs, and licenses of Bitdefender Security for AWS has been accessible.

Before choosing Bitdefender Security for AWS, I did not evaluate other options.

I would rate Bitdefender Security for AWS a nine out of ten. I give Bitdefender Security for AWS a nine because it is a very complete tool with very global visibility. I would advise other people who are considering using Bitdefender Security for AWS to try the solution so they know it is very functional. My overall review rating for Bitdefender Security for AWS is nine.

The protection that it provides is valuable because the biggest problem that people and companies have been seeing in the last two or three years is scams and everything like that. You ought to protect yourself for security reasons. You want to make sure you protect critical things such as files or databases because there's so much hacking going on in the world.

I remember when they first pushed it to the DBM server, my backup server at the time, it caused a lot of issues because they were supposed to exclude all the folders that they were backing up to and had the storage. I got hold of the security group and asked them to uninstall it. We uninstalled it, ran a script, and then it fixed the problem. If you're going to install it on a server, you need to do research to find out what you should avoid.

It was included in the account that we had. We didn't have to pay for it. 

It works well as long as you set it right. You have to be careful with Bitdefender. It's different when you use it on laptops and desktops, but on servers, it's not the same. You need to make proper settings on it for what you ought to exclude. The problems it was causing were mainly because they didn't set it up properly. When you start putting it on things, you have to make sure you don't include certain things and that you make proper rules and settings to say go scan this or that. When you're installing anything like this on desktops, laptops, servers, or anything else, you want to make sure that you have done the research first and that you know what to include or exclude.

Overall, I'd rate it an eight out of ten.