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We performed a comparison between Amazon EKS and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"I like the scalability they're currently providing. Integration was very easy. It was a good experience.""It has valuable monitoring and insights features.""Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""I like its auto-scale feature very much.""It's the best option for medium or large enterprises.""The stability of the solution is good.""The most valuable feature is the computing speed."

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"It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to invest in third-party agents repeatedly.""CrowdStrike utilizes signatureless technology, eliminating the need for regular signature updates on endpoint systems.""Cloud security posture management (CSPM) is most valuable.""The RTR feature stands out as particularly valuable to me due to its capability to log into machines.""Technical support is helpful.""It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats.""The most valuable feature of Falcon Cloud Security is its comprehensive threat-hunting ability.""The most significant benefit is how quickly malware and other malicious attacks are detected."

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Cons
"A cluster is required on-premises, which takes a lot of time.""The goal and idea behind microservices are to always be available and capable of handling any load, no matter how many requests come through...All of these services are great, but I also think it would be useful to have the same technology available in a miniature resource size, enabling the same applications and services to run on a small machine.""Setup depends on what kind of architecture you have""I would like to see the user interface improved because it is hard to find and not straightforward.""They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances.""The connectivity could be better.""It is very cumbersome to assign permissions to users to interact with a cluster.""I'd like to see the solution add a service catalog."

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"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is expensive.""The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive.""The CrowdStrike dashboard currently lacks a username field.""The only suggestion for improvement would be the pricing.""There should be cloud storage scanning. We would like to have cloud storage vulnerability and threat management on any cloud storage.""It gets the work done, but the main problem with the solution is that if you remediate anything, it takes 45 days for you to get any of the features displayed on the dashboard. This is the real weakness of CrowdStrike. Their customer support is also not ready to help with it. If you remediate any cloud vulnerability that they are giving you, such as removing a host from your organization, it takes around 45 days for them to remove it from their console.""It would be more convenient if there was an easier way to install CrowdStrike, perhaps through better integration with Active Directory.""The UI part needs to be improved."

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  • "The solution is more expensive than other competitors and does not require a license."
  • "Cloud based pay-as-you-go pricing"
  • "My company paid for the license."
  • "Pricing is dependent upon instance type."
  • "The solution is quite costly and developers will start exploring other solutions or moving their workloads to other clouds if costs aren't reduced."
  • "The price could be cheaper. I would rate it as seven out of ten."
  • "Amazon EKS has fair pricing. It's better in terms of pricing than other platforms."
  • "I would like a cheaper version of it."
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  • "The pricing is fair for what you get. I'd rate them a solid nine out of ten in terms of pricing."
  • "I am not the one who handled the pricing. A different team worked on it, but it is pretty expensive."
  • "CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is pricy."
  • "The pricing is reasonable, neither overly expensive nor excessively cheap, making it competitive compared to other market options."
  • "Its price is moderate."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.
    Top Answer:The product pricing depends on the specific requirements. For instance, clients between $3000-$4000 per month might find the pricing reasonable, with clusters priced around $70 to $80 plus additional… more »
    Top Answer:They could add logging features. At present, we use external tools to increase and decrease the number of instances.
    Top Answer:It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats.
    Top Answer:You can't get a fixed price for these tools. If you subscribe to something and need to deploy it to another team, the price goes up. It's the same with Microsoft Defender. I'm not responsible for the… more »
    Top Answer:The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive.
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

    EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
    EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.

    CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is a platform of cloud security solutions aimed at protecting organizations from breaches while simplifying cloud security management. The unified platform combines several cloud security functionalities for comprehensive protection. Built on the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform, it leverages the powerful agent and technology used in CrowdStrike's renowned endpoint protection solutions, extending its capabilities seamlessly to cloud environments.

    CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is designed to be a shield for the cloud infrastructure. One of its key strengths is its ability to monitor cloud workloads for potential breaches and attacks. It doesn't matter if you're running virtual machines, containers, or a combination of both across different cloud providers – Falcon Cloud Security offers visibility and protection. Additionally, it works tirelessly to pinpoint misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in your cloud setup, proactively stopping issues before they become full-blown security incidents. Compliance becomes easier too, as it can check if your deployments meet the requirements of various industry standards and regulations.

    If you heavily utilize containers and Kubernetes, Falcon Cloud Security has you covered. It delves deep into container images and running containers to spot weaknesses and potential threats, helping you secure your containerized applications from the moment they're developed to when they're up and running. Finally, it tackles the often messy world of permissions in the cloud. Falcon Cloud Security analyzes identities and their attached permissions, ensuring that the principle of least privilege is followed and sensitive data isn't exposed due to overly broad access rights.

    In essence, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security aims to simplify the complexities of cloud security by consolidating tools, providing a centralized view of your risks and threats, and delivering advanced protection that blends seamlessly with your development processes.

    Based on the interviews we conducted with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security users, overall, the sentiment is positive. Users praise the solution's efficacy in detecting and preventing threats, its ease of use, scalability, stability, and integration with existing systems. There were also mentions of areas for improvement, such as the pricing, the user interface, and customer support.

    Sample Customers
    GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway
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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm14%
    Security Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Healthcare Company5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Amazon EKS is ranked 15th in Container Security with 38 reviews while CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is ranked 9th in Container Security with 13 reviews. Amazon EKS is rated 8.6, while CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EKS writes "Supports multiple tools and has a straightforward setup process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security writes "Enhances the overall safety of our company's environment from cyber threats". Amazon EKS is most compared with OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs and Linode, whereas CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Qualys VMDR and Sysdig Falco.

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