We performed a comparison between GuardDuty and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Reviewers praised AWS GuardDuty for its efficient data collection and threat response. Wiz excels at identifying and resolving misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. Users say AWS GuardDuty would benefit from adding a mobile version for remote workers and improving dashboard analytics. Wiz should focus on speeding up remediation and requires more advanced reporting capabilities and logging integration.
Service and Support: Customers have praised Amazon's quick and responsive technical support. Wiz's customer service is also highly regarded. Reviewers say Wiz account representatives are accessible and post-sales support is strong. However, some said Wiz could improve by making information more publicly accessible.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AWS GuardDuty is simple and efficient, with quick deployment. In contrast, Wiz's setup is straightforward and speedy, requiring only a short amount of time. Additionally, Wiz provides connectivity to multiple cloud environments and does not require ongoing maintenance.
Pricing: AWS GuardDuty offers a setup cost that is calculated based on the amount of data processed, without any extra charges besides the standard licensing. Some reviewers said that Wiz's pricing is costly compared to other options and expressed concerns about potential changes. Users have also mentioned that Wiz could improve in terms of pricing transparency.
ROI: AWS GuardDuty yielded an ROI by enhancing security posture, fostering trust, and generating business prospects. Wiz offers instant advantages such as enhanced asset management, vulnerability detection, centralized investigations, and real-time analysis. It streamlines procedures, enhances compliance, and provides extensive coverage with limited resources.
Comparison Results: Our reviewers prefer GuardDuty over Wiz. Users appreciate GuardDuty's ability to collect data and send alerts, which allows them to monitor their AWS accounts without incurring extra expenses. GuardDuty also offers threat response and remediation capabilities, timely notifications, and the ability to analyze logs from various sources.
"It kinda just gives us another layer of security. So it does provide some sort of comfort that we do have something that is monitoring for abnormal behavior."
"The way it monitors accounts is definitely a very important feature."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"The out-of-band malware detection from the EBS volumes. It's really cool. No agents or anything needed, it automatically finds and correlates based on malware."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."
"Deployment is great, and we didn't face any big challenges."
"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."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."
"AWS GuardDuty needs to be more customer-oriented."
"We currently find Lacework to be much better at detecting vulnerabilities than AWS GuardDuty. The engines of AWS GuardDuty have to 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."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"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."
"One improvement I would suggest for AWS GuardDuty is the ability to assign findings to specific users or groups, facilitating better communication and follow-up actions."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 19 reviews while Wiz is ranked 3rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 11 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.2, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Lacework, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Qualys VMDR. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. Wiz report.
See our list of best Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) vendors.
We monitor all Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.