Amazon Inspector vs OneTrust GRC comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OneTrust are both solutions in the IT Vendor Risk Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while OneTrust is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 0.9% mindshare in IVRM, compared to OneTrust’s 9.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 78% of OneTrust users who would recommend it.

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78% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

OneTrust GRC and Amazon Inspector are contenders in the governance, risk, and compliance space, each appealing to different strengths and preferences. OneTrust GRC is favored for its customer support and cost-effectiveness, while Amazon Inspector leads with its comprehensive security features and effectiveness.

Features: OneTrust GRC enables robust compliance management, risk assessment, and policy management, facilitating adherence to various regulatory frameworks with cloud-based IT and vendor risk management tools. Amazon Inspector offers continuous vulnerability assessment and detailed reporting for AWS applications, including EC2 instances and container images, with support for CIS benchmarks. It consolidates security insights across different AWS environments, providing categorization by instances and repositories.

Room for Improvement: OneTrust GRC could enhance its user interface for even greater simplicity and expand its integration capabilities with non-GRC applications. There is also room for more extended features in automating incident management processes. Amazon Inspector lacks the ability to define custom compliance rules and could improve with more comprehensive customer support options. The absence of non-AWS compatibility limits its effectiveness in hybrid environments. User feedback indicates they would benefit from more detailed remediation advice.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OneTrust GRC is recognized for its flexible deployment model, which adapts to unique organizational needs and is backed by extensive customer support. Implementations are streamlined, with technical functionalities managed via a functional configuration that respects global compliance standards. Amazon Inspector, part of the AWS ecosystem, ensures swift deployment for AWS customers but offers less in terms of customer support compared to OneTrust GRC. Its integration with other AWS services simplifies deployment, primarily benefiting users fully immersed in AWS.

Pricing and ROI: OneTrust GRC offers competitive long-term pricing that aligns with strategic compliance objectives, delivering a solid ROI through comprehensive feature sets. While it carries an initial cost, its return is seen in sustained compliance benefits. Amazon Inspector is priced to appeal to the AWS customer base, affording significant ROI with minimal initial costs by ensuring reliable security assessments for essential applications. Its pricing model suits businesses that value immediate, actionable security insights.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector

Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (17th)

OneTrust GRC

Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

GRC (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the IT Vendor Risk Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Inspector is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneTrust GRC is 9.9%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Vendor Risk Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OneTrust GRC	9.9%
Amazon Inspector	0.9%
Other	89.2%

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Featured Reviews

Abdalla Kenawy

AWS DevOps SRE/Infrastructure Engineer at Capgemini

Automated insights streamline data security assessment

For Amazon Inspector, we have many EC2 or virtual machines deployed inside our AWS environment, and the problem is that the existing package deployed inside this EC2 instance has already outdated packages. As we progress with time, this package needs to be updated for security enhancement, which requires us to uninstall the package, install the new version, and then we should be fine. However, the challenge comes with how to scan all our EC2 instances for security vulnerabilities, which is currently managed by Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector can scan EC2 instances or ECR, which is the ECR registry where we can save artifacts Docker images. Amazon Inspector can also scan Docker images uploaded to ECR for Elastic Registry service, and it can scan databases and S3 based on the latest updates. I noticed this from a couple of months ago, and it provides huge benefits for security. Regarding the best features of Amazon Inspector, it gives us a list of all existing outdated packages as part of a deployed package on EC2 instances or specific Python packages that are part of the Docker file and the Docker image itself, which are causing security concerns. Amazon Inspector can list these security concerns and offer guidance on how we can remediate it by updating the package to a specific upper version or something similar.

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Gerald Pegg

Governance Risk and Compliance Coordinator at HUB International

Streamlined incident management with user-friendly automation tools and responsive support

I use OneTrust specifically for incident management. For my company, I helped to create the incident management program that we currently use, particularly with gathering the information and sending out assessments to different vendors to collect information for further research and discovery. I…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The scalability of the solution itself is unparalleled."

"The assessment reports provided by Amazon Inspector have helped me in identifying security vulnerabilities in my cloud applications by giving us a nicely designed dashboard that provides all the security information we need to work on remediation."

"The vulnerability discovery is valuable, and they also rank those vulnerabilities for you. So, you could rapidly attack some of the higher, severe vulnerabilities as they pop up, if they do pop up."

"It operates continuously, so as soon as resources are created, it scans them for vulnerabilities."

"The automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable."

"Amazon Inspector is highly stable, rated ten out of ten, and this stability impacts business security and administration positively."

"The findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It offers an easy-to-understand layout."

"I recommend Amazon Inspector because it allows the automation of processes and requires less manual monitoring."

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"OneTrust GRC offers policy management, including documentation, distribution, attestation, and policy management."

"The platform is especially useful in startup environments where we're typically starting from scratch."

"The simplicity of OneTrust GRC, particularly its user interface, is valuable as it makes it easy to use and not complex."

"The product helps us streamline audit and incident management processes."

"It does help in the automation of our privacy impact assessments."

"As a solution for IT risks, it is a very good product."

"Vendors can be assessed and rated out of the tool, and assessments can be scheduled for updates at certain intervals."

"We have data from Jira regarding addiction related to Europe as well as California. Additionally, we have data related to the Indian Data Protection Bill. Therefore, GDPR compliance is highly beneficial."

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Cons

"One major area for improvement is remediation. My team works on remediating findings over time, likely using available patches. However, easier integration with Amazon's patching services would be very helpful."

"There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected."

"There are challenges associated with the interdependencies in AWS services, like requiring an Active Directory for other services, resulting in additional charges."

"There isn't too much to improve right now. Scanning on demand or as a part of the pipeline versus a post pipeline solution would be good, but it is not a deal breaker by any means."

"The other point is that the reporting features of Inspector need improvement. For example, I am in an organization with millions of CVEs, and getting an overview of all this is challenging."

"It has a limited scope. So, AWS Inspector primarily focuses on the security of the EC2 instance. So, if your architecture includes other AWS services, then you may need to use additional tools for your comprehensive security assessment. So that is one con. Another is, like, we have a dependency on agents."

"One area for improvement in Amazon Inspector is the automation aspect."

"It has automated vulnerability assessment, yet I seek more flexibility in defining custom vulnerability checks tailored to my needs, which is more difficult."

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"OneTrust GRC's workflows aren't automated and need to be manually driven."

"I haven't seen any return on investment using the solution. If I had the opportunity, I would use a different solution."

"There are limitations to customized workflow automation, and they need to increase both the available automation and the customized workflow."

"The Vendor Risk dashboard is quite basic today and not interactive, but improvements are in coming the next releases."

"We encounter difficulties creating multiple platforms or interfaces and manual processes for changing certain settings."

"The implementation of OneTrust could have been smoother, particularly in terms of scoping for those outside of governance, risk, and compliance."

"I wish there were more customization options, particularly within the privacy rights automation module."

"There could be enhancements related to AI."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is scaled as you go. There are probably a certain number of scans per month, and there are tiers. If you're under a certain tier, it is free. The second level is pennies, and then all the way up to like a million. So, it has a tiered pricing program. They're pretty good with your initial scanning, and there is room to scale based on being affordable, but it is fairly cheap. There are no additional costs. They pretty much think about it as a pay-per-scan type model."

"The pricing is very transparent and clear."

"The lowest cost would be around $10 for a few small accounts, however, for thousands of accounts, it could be around $5000 to $6000 dollars per month."

"It's priced according to market standards for its services."

"The solution is expensive."

"The platform is expensive."

"OneTrust GRC is an expensive solution."

"I found the pricing and setup cost very reasonable."

"OneTrust GRC's licensing costs about $15,000 per module."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is too expensive, I rate the solution a seven since it falls under the pricey side."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

Government

Insurance Company

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Inspector?

The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security. Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Inspector?

I manage pricing and purchase reserved instances, yet face challenges due to dependencies and lack of options for reserved capacity for EBS volumes. Some services create extensive costs upon launch.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Inspector?

There are challenges associated with the interdependencies in AWS services, like requiring an Active Directory for other services, resulting in additional charges. Also, there is no option to buy r...

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What do you like most about OneTrust GRC?

We have data from Jira regarding addiction related to Europe as well as California. Additionally, we have data related to the Indian Data Protection Bill. Therefore, GDPR compliance is highly benef...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OneTrust GRC?

I don't have specifics on pricing. I know it's not very cheap, but the budget aspect is outside my wheelhouse.

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What needs improvement with OneTrust GRC?

I wish there were more customization options, particularly within the privacy rights automation module. More customization on the backend would allow for adjusting specific category labels tailored...

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Overview

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. These findings can be reviewed directly or as part of detailed assessment reports which are available via the Amazon Inspector console or API.

Amazon Inspector security assessments help you check for unintended network accessibility of your Amazon EC2 instances and for vulnerabilities on those EC2 instances. Amazon Inspector assessments are offered to you as pre-defined rules packages mapped to common security best practices and vulnerability definitions. Examples of built-in rules include checking for access to your EC2 instances from the internet, remote root login being enabled, or vulnerable software versions installed. These rules are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.

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OneTrust is the largest and most widely used technology platform to operationalize privacy, security and third-party risk management. More than 2,500 customers, both big and small and across 100 countries, use OneTrust to demonstrate compliance with privacy regulations including the GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act, Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world's privacy laws.

OneTrust's size and scale allows it to offer the easiest-to-use and most affordable solution for implementing use cases including: Privacy Maturity Benchmarking, Data Protection by Design and Default (PbD), Data Protection Impact Assessments (PIA/DPIA), Third-Party Vendor Risk Management, Incident and Breach Response, Data Mapping (Records of Processing), Customer Preference Management, Consent Management, Website Scanning & Cookie Compliance, Mobile App Scanning, Data Subject/Consumer Rights Management and Policy & Notice Management.

The platform's intelligence comes from DataGuidance by OneTrust, an in-depth and up-to-date source of privacy and security regulatory summaries, guidance, templates, case law, and analysis. The database is updated daily by over 20 in-house privacy researchers, along with a network of 500 lawyers across over 300 jurisdictions.

OneTrust's 700 employees are located across co-headquarters in Atlanta and in London with additional locations in Bangalore, Melbourne, San Francisco, New York, Munich and Hong Kong. To learn more, visit OneTrust.com.

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