AWS GuardDuty vs Sweet Security comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Sweet Security are both solutions in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.7, while Sweet Security is ranked #30. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 12.8% mindshare in CWPP, compared to Sweet Security’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sweet Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 24, 2025

AWS GuardDuty and Sweet Security compete in the cloud security domain. AWS GuardDuty demonstrates an advantage with its seamless integration with AWS services, while Sweet Security stands out due to flexible deployment options and a feature-rich platform.

Features: AWS GuardDuty provides continuous monitoring, threat detection, and intelligent alerting within AWS using machine learning. Sweet Security offers comprehensive threat intelligence, multi-platform threat detection, and robust security tools beyond a single cloud provider.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS GuardDuty allows straightforward deployment with extensive AWS support, appealing to those committed to AWS services. Sweet Security's flexible deployment model functions across various environments with dedicated customer support, beneficial for businesses with diverse IT setups. The main difference is AWS GuardDuty's ease of use within AWS versus Sweet Security’s adaptable deployment solutions.

Pricing and ROI: AWS GuardDuty is generally cost-effective for existing AWS users, delivering good ROI through efficient integration and low additional costs. Sweet Security may involve higher initial costs with a subscription model but often provides greater ROI due to its extensive feature set and adaptability across different environments.

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Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 3.6%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS GuardDuty is 12.8%, up from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sweet Security is 0.6%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AWS GuardDuty	12.8%
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security	3.6%
Sweet Security	0.6%
Other	83.0%

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Featured Reviews

Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

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Terence Dube

AWS Cloud Engineer at Standard Telephones and Cables

Comprehensive threat detection simplifies security management

GuardDuty is limited to AWS environments. While incorporating Amazon Detective for detailed investigation can be useful, including more granular details in findings, such as specific user actions or historical comparisons, would be beneficial. Furthermore, managing global AWS environments requires setting up additional tools for viewing GuardDuty findings across multiple regions. A unified dashboard that aggregates findings across all regions without requiring manual aggregation could enhance convenience for users.

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Elior Duanis

Cloud and compute team leader at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Security updates and management become an effortless routine

The best feature of Sweet Security is that the events come in the form of stories, which are very informative, making it very clear what's going on. The good sensor that can be installed on the servers themselves is an excellent feature. The value we see from having real-time visibility into our cloud environment is significant. We actually came from a different tool that does almost the same, but it did not have some of the features that Sweet Security has, with the main uses being the SOC integration and addressing misconfigurations from the IT team. The real-time monitoring feature is essential; it's a security tool that points out vulnerabilities, and once they point out the vulnerability, we address and fix it. Sweet Security's reporting tools enhance our insights into potential vulnerabilities and threats as they serve as our eyes and ears inside AWS, telling us what we are doing wrong so we can fix it. Sweet Security's threat detection capabilities influence our decision-making processes by providing alerts and allowing us to look at the dashboards and respond accordingly, even as a very small team consisting of just two people.

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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 most valuable features of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security are cloud misconfiguration, Kubernetes, and IaC scanning."

"The tool identifies issues quickly."

"The mean time to detect has been reduced."

"I would definitely recommend this product to other members, vendors, or users, as it covers security posture management, auditing, documentation, and compliance management."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security can integrate all your cloud accounts and resources you create in the AWS account, We have set it up to scan the AWS transfer services, EC2, security groups, and GitHub."

"Cloud Native Security's best feature is its ability to identify hard-coded secrets during pull request reviews."

"Singularity Cloud Security's most valuable features are its ease of scalability and comprehensive security measures."

"I would definitely recommend SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security for infrastructure security."

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"The product has automated protection powered by AI/ML, which is now far more powerful than before. It uses AI/ML in its detection algorithm, providing fast and quick results."

"Since our environment is cloud based and accessible from the internet, we like the ability to check where the user has logged in from and what kind of API calls that user is doing."

"What we found most valuable in Amazon GuardDuty is its threat detection feature, especially because we were monitoring a huge number of AWS accounts, so we needed a solution that would monitor for any kind of malicious activity. The monitoring aspect of the solution was great because it gave us timely notifications if and when anything happened, and Amazon GuardDuty helped keep us on our toes to make sure we took action right away."

"What I like most about Amazon GuardDuty is that you can monitor your AWS accounts across, but you don't have to pay the additional cost. You can get all your CloudTrail VPC flow logs and DNS logs all in one, and then you get the monitoring with that. A lot of times, if you had a separate tool on-premise, you would have to set up your DNS logs, so usually, Amazon GuardDuty helps with all your additional networking requirements, so I utilize it for continuous monitoring because you can't detect anything if you're not monitoring, and the solution fills that gap. If you don't do anything else first, you can deploy your firewall, and then you've got your Route 53 DNS and DNSSEC, but then Amazon GuardDuty fills that, and then you have audit requirements in AU that says, "Hey, what are your additional logs?", so you can just say, "Hey, we utilize Amazon GuardDuty." You're getting your CloudTrail, your VPC flow logs, and all your DNS logs, and those are your additional logs right there, so the solution meets a lot of requirements. Now, everything comes with a cost, but I also like that the solution also provides threat response and remediation. It's a pretty good product. I've just used it more for log analysis and that's where the value is at, the niche value. Once you do threat detection, it goes into a lot of other integrations you need to implement, so threat detection is only good as the integration, as the user that knows the tools itself, and the architecture and how it's all set up and the rules that you set within that."

"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."

"Deployment is great, and we didn't face any big challenges."

"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."

"The solution will detect abnormalities in the AWS workload and alert us so that we can monitor and take action."

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"The value we see from having real-time visibility into our cloud environment is significant, as Sweet Security serves as our eyes and ears inside AWS, telling us what we are doing wrong so we can fix it."

Cons

"While SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers robust protection, its cost could be a barrier for some users."

"Implementing single sign-on requires a pre-class account feature, which is currently not available."

"The price is on the higher side. The dashboard can be more detailed."

"The Kubernetes scanning on the Oracle Cloud needs to be improved. It's on the roadmap. AWS has this capability, but it's unavailable for Oracle Cloud."

"I would like additional integrations."

"Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky."

"The Singularity Cloud Security console is experiencing delays in clearing resolved issues, which can take over an hour to be removed from the display."

"For SentinelOne, improvements could be made in managing Internet dependency as cloud-based operations can pose challenges in environments with limited connectivity."

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"The product needs to improve its cost-efficiency since it is expensive."

"AWS GuardDuty sometimes shows false positives and should have better detection accuracy."

"While sending the alerts to the email, they are not being patched. we have to do the patching and mapping manually. If GuardDuty could include a feature to do this automatically, it will make our job easier. That is something I believe can be improved."

"There is currently no consolidated dashboard for AWS GuardDuty. It would be helpful if they could provide a dashboard based on severity levels (high, medium, low) and offer insights account-wise, especially for users utilizing automation structures."

"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."

"In future updates of AWS GuardDuty, I would suggest implementing better UI features."

"Improvement-wise, Amazon GuardDuty should have an overall dashboard analytics function so we could see what's in the current environment, and then in addition to that, provide best practices and recommendations, particularly to provide some type of observability, and then figure out the login side of it, based on our current environment, in terms of what we're not monitoring and what we should monitor. The solution should also give us a sample code configuration to implement that added feature or feature request. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon GuardDuty are more security analytics, reporting, and monitoring. They should provide recommendations and additional options that answer questions such as "Hey, what can we see in our environment?", "What should we implement within the environment?", What's recommended?" We know that cost will always be associated with that, but Amazon GuardDuty should show us the increased costs or decreased costs if we implement it or don't implement it, and that would be a good feature request, particularly with all products within AWS, just for cloud products in general because there are times features are implemented, but once they're deployed, they don't tell you about costs that would be generated along with those features. After features are deployed, there should a summary of the costs that would be generated, and projected based on current usage, so they would give us the option to figure out how long we're going to use those features and the option to keep those on or turn those off. If more services were like that, a lot more people would use those on the cloud."

"Some of the pain points in Amazon GuardDuty was the cost. When compared to some of the other services, depending on how many we had to monitor, if we had a huge range of accounts, as our accounts increased, we had a cost factor that came into play. Sometimes there were issues, for example, with findings that came up, we wanted to add notes and there were issues back then where notes couldn't be entered properly. If we wanted to leave a note such as "Okay, we have assessed this and this is how we feel", or "This is a false positive", Amazon GuardDuty wasn't allowing us to do that. Even with the suppression of certain findings, there was some issue that we had faced at one time. Those were some of the pain points of the solution."

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"One area for improvement could be the alerts, as we have an issue with the alert time, the time it takes for the system to send the alert, but besides that, there is nothing special."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For pricing, it currently seems to be in line with market rates."

"Its pricing is okay. It is in line with what other providers were providing. It is not cheap. It is not expensive."

"SentinelOne offers excellent pricing and licensing options."

"PingSafe is priced reasonably for our workload."

"The tool is cost-effective."

"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."

"PingSafe's pricing is good because it provides us with a solution."

"We have an enterprise license. It is affordable. I'm not sure, but I think we pay 150,000 rupees per month."

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"I have heard that the solution's price is quite high."

"Pricing is determined by the number of events sent."

"I don't have all the details in terms of licensing for Amazon GuardDuty, but my organization does have a license set up for it."

"The tool has no subscription charges."

"The platform is inexpensive."

"We use a pay-as-you-use license, which is competitively priced in the market."

"The price of the solution is exactly right."

"In terms of the costs associated with Amazon GuardDuty, it was $1 per GB from what I recall. Pricing was based on per gigabyte. For example, for the first five hundred gigabytes per month, it'll be $1 per GB, so it'll be $500. If your usage was greater, there's another bracket, for example, the next two thousand GB, then there's an add-on cost of 50 cents per GB. That's how Amazon GuardDuty pricing slowly goes up. I can't remember if there was any kind of additional cost apart from standard licensing for the solution. Nothing else that at least comes to mind. What the service was charging was worth it. That was one good thing when using Amazon GuardDuty because my company could be in a certain tier for a certain period. My company wasn't under a licensing model where it could overestimate its usage and under-utilize its usage and pay much more. This was what made the pricing model for Amazon GuardDuty better."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

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16%

Computer Software Company

14%

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Wellness & Fitness Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Small Business	43
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	53

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Midsize Enterprise	4
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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

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Amazon Guard Duty is a continuous cloud security monitoring service that consistently monitors and administers several data sources. These include AWS CloudTrail data events for EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) audit logs, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) flow logs, DNS (Domain Name System) logs, S3 (Simple Cloud Storage), and AWS CloudTrail event logs.

Amazon GuardDuty intuitively uses threat intelligence data - such as lists of malicious domains and IP addresses - and ML (machine learning) to quickly discover suspicious and problematic activity in a user's AWS ecosystem. Activities may include concerns such as interactions with malicious IP addresses or domains, exposed credentials usage, or changes and/or escalation of privileges.

GuardDuty is able to easily determine problematic AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances delivering malware or mining bitcoin. It is also able to trace AWS account access history for evidence of destabilization. such as suspicious API calls resulting in changing password policies to minimize password strength or anomalous infrastructure deployments in new or different never-used regions.

GuardDuty will continually alert users regarding their AWS environment status and will send the security discoveries to the GuardDuty dashboard or Amazon CloudWatch events for users to view.

Users can access GuardDuty via:

AWS SDKs: Amazon provides users with several software development kits (SDKs) that are made up of libraries and sample code of numerous popular programming languages and platforms, such as Android, iOS, Java, .Net, Python, and Ruby. The SDKs make it easier to develop programmatic access to GuardDuty.
GuardDuty HTTPS API: This allows users to issue HTTPS requests directly to the service.
GuardDuty Console: This is a browser-based intuitive dashboard interface where users can access and use GuardDuty.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Kubernetes protection is an optional add-on in Amazon GuardDuty. This tool is able to discover malicious behavior and possible destabilization of an organization's Kubernetes clusters inside of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

When Amazon EKS is activated, GuardDuty will actively use various data sources to discover potential risks against Kubernetes API. When Kubernetes protection is enabled, GuardDuty uses optional data sources to detect threats against Kubernetes API.

Kubernetes audit logs are a Kubernetes feature that captures historical API activity from applications, the control plane, users, and endpoints. GuardDuty collates these logs from Amazon EKS to create Kubernetes discoveries for the organization's Amazon EKS assets; there is no need to store or turn on the logs.

As long as Kubernetes protection remains activated, GuardDuty will continuously dissect Kubernetes data sources from the Amazon EKS clusters to ensure no suspicious or anomalous behavior is taking place.

Amazon Simple Cloud Storage (S3) Protection

Amazon S3 allows Amazon GuardDuty to actively audit object-level API processes to discover possible security threats to data inside an organization's S3 buckets. GuardDuty continually audits risk to the organization’s S3 assets by carefully dissecting AWS CloudTrail management events and AWS CloudTrail S3 data events. These tools are continually auditing various CloudTrail management events for potential suspicious activities that affect S3 buckets, such as PutBucketReplication, DeleteBucket, ListBucket, and data events for S3 object-level API processes, such as PutObject, GetObject, ListObject, and DeleteObject.

Reviews from Real Users

“The most valuable features are the single system for data collection and the alert mechanisms. Prior to using GuardDuty, we had multiple systems to collect data and put it in a centralized location so we could look into it. Now we don't need to do that anymore as GuardDuty does it for us.” - Arunkumar A., Information Security Manager at Tata Consultancy Services

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Sweet Security offers a robust cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard sensitive data with advanced monitoring features, enhancing organization-wide security protocols.

The comprehensive features of Sweet Security include real-time threat intelligence, automated incident response, and seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures. Engineered for flexibility and scalability, it effectively adapts to evolving cybersecurity landscapes, delivering actionable insights for proactive security management.

What are the key features of Sweet Security?

Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Continuously monitors network traffic for potential threats.
Automated Incident Response: Rapidly responds to security incidents to minimize impact.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing systems without disruption.
Advanced Analytics: Provides detailed analysis to predict and preempt security breaches.

What benefits can users expect?

Enhanced Security: Strengthens overall data protection and reduces vulnerability.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses with automated processes and efficient resource use.
Improved Compliance: Helps meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive monitoring.
Increased Trust: Builds user confidence by ensuring high standards of data security.

Sweet Security is implemented across industries such as finance and healthcare to guard sensitive information and comply with stringent regulations. Its adaptability allows customization to meet specific industry standards, addressing unique security challenges while maintaining high levels of protection.

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