AWS Security Hub vs Microsoft Sentinel comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.6, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 8.6% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Microsoft’s 16.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

AWS Security Hub

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

AWS Security Hub and Microsoft Sentinel are leading security solutions, with Microsoft Sentinel having the upper hand due to its advanced AI and automation capabilities.

Features: AWS Security Hub offers automated compliance checks, a centralized security view, and integration with AWS services. Microsoft Sentinel provides AI-driven threat detection, integration with Azure services, and automated response capabilities. Users find Microsoft Sentinel's features more advanced due to its AI and automation capabilities.

Room for Improvement: AWS Security Hub needs better multi-cloud support and more detailed visualization tools. Microsoft Sentinel requires increased documentation, a better alerting system, and smoother integration with non-Microsoft services. Both products have areas needing enhancement, but Microsoft Sentinel shows a greater need for better alert management and documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS Security Hub is easy to deploy within AWS environments and has responsive customer service. Microsoft Sentinel supports cloud-native deployment but has a steeper learning curve and could improve initial setup guidance.

Pricing and ROI: AWS Security Hub has predictable pricing appreciated for its cost-effectiveness within AWS. Microsoft Sentinel offers flexible pricing but may result in higher costs for extensive use. Users generally see a higher return on investment with Microsoft Sentinel due to its advanced features, despite potentially higher setup costs.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Security Hub

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th)

Microsoft Sentinel

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (3rd), Microsoft Security Suite (6th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of AWS Security Hub is 8.6%, down from 9.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 16.9%, down from 20.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot

Nov 26, 2021

Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?

We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will always have the performance capability you need. If you have Microsoft 365, it is very easy to plug the endpoints into Azure Sentinel. With this solution, you can go on the offensive and stay proactive, continually hunting for threats. Azure Sentinel is purely cloud-based and a leading next-generation SIEM. We have experienced a few false positives with Azure Sentinel. There is a certain level of expertise that you need to possess to appropriately utilize all of Azure Sentinel's offerings - it can be a somewhat steep learning curve to get things running at capacity. It would be an improvement if Azure Sentinel integrated better with other SaaS providers and offered more out-of-the-box connectors. You get a huge range of powerful security tools with AWS Security Hub, including compliance scanners, vulnerability endpoint protection, and firewalls. AWS Security Hub has very good detection and offers helpful real-time alerts. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security alerts or findings from other AWS services, all in one single pane. AWS Security Hub lacks a certain level of self-sufficiency, though. We would like to see AWS Security Hub become a multi-cloud solution. AWS Security Hub has some regional restrictions that have proved problematic for us; we need visibility for all instances we have on our account. We found that AWS Security Hub is not a good global product. Conclusion: We felt AWS was lacking in some basic features we consider essential, like multi-region coverage. We also wanted a solution that was more intuitive. We found Azure Sentinel to be a better fit for our team and our clients. We have a global reach and need a product that could satisfy cross-region coverage efficiently. We also feel that Azure Sentinel offers better proactive threat awareness.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Offers best practice recommendations and supports various compliance standards

Security Hub provides insightful information about what is running and where there might be weaknesses. It offers best practice recommendations and supports various compliance standards such as ISO and PCI DSS. Enabling these compliance checks helps identify non-compliant services and suggests steps to achieve compliance. The main advantage is providing information and compliance insights rather than prevention.

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Ivan Angelov

Project Executive at synergyc

Threat detection and response capabilities enhance investigation processes

My security team has been using Microsoft Sentinel for around two years. We also have Bastion and SolarWinds as part of our monitoring tools. We use a three-way tool, alongside Microsoft Sentinel, in our environment The most valuable features for us include threat collection, threat detection,…

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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

"Easily integrates with third-party tools"

"AWS Security Hub can check your infrastructure against multiple compliance frameworks. You can turn on or off specific frameworks based on your needs."

"Security Hub provides insightful information about what is running and where there might be weaknesses."

"The most valuable feature of AWS Security Hub is the ability to track when monitoring is not enabled on any of my resources."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to manage...It is a scalable solution."

"AWS Security Hub's unified dashboard does help streamline my process of identifying vulnerabilities, but we don't use Inspector."

"The best feature of AWS Security Hub is that you can get compliance or your cloud's current security posture."

"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."

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"We feel safe knowing that we have a solution that we can use to react in case of an emergency."

"The signal correlation and dashboards features of Microsoft Sentinel are fantastic because it correlates the signal logs with other products."

"The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found."

"The pricing of the product is excellent."

"Microsoft Sentinel provides the capability to integrate different log sources. On top of having several data connectors in place, you can also do integration with a threat intelligence platform to enhance and enrich the data that's available. You can collect as many logs and build all the use cases."

"The initial setup is very simple and straightforward."

"The data connectors that Microsoft Sentinel provides are easy to integrate when we work with a Microsoft agent."

"Sentinel's most important feature is the ability to centralize all the logs in one place. There's no need to search multiple systems for information."

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Cons

"We need more granular-level customizations to enable or disable the rules in AWS Security Hub."

"AWS Security Hub should improve the time it takes to update. It takes a long period of time when updating. It can take 24 hours sometimes to update. Additionally, when integrating this solution with more security tools, takes time."

"There is room for improvement in implementing AI capabilities. It would be beneficial for Security Hub to implement preventative measures and to directly apply recommendations instead of just suggesting them."

"The telemetry doesn't always go into the control center. When you have multiple instances running in AWS, you need a control tower to take feeds from Security Hub and analyze your results. Sometimes exemptions aren't passed between the control tower and Security Hub. The configuration gets mixed up or you don't get the desired results."

"Adding SIEM features would be beneficial because of the limited customization of AWS Security Hub."

"The solution will only give you insight if you have configure rule enabled. It should work more like Prisma Cloud and Dome9 which have a better approach."

"It's not user-friendly. Too much going on, too many unnecessary findings, not very visual. You can't do much compared to other similar tools that are cheaper and better."

"I would like a more fine-grained capability for creating custom rules and a more user-friendly experience programmatically in writing queries and configuring custom security rules, making it quicker and easier."

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"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."

"The KQL query does not function effectively with Windows 11 machines, and in the majority of machine-based investigations, KQL queries are essential for organizing the data during investigations."

"Microsoft Defender has a built-in threat expert option that enables you to contact an expert. That feature isn't available in Sentinel because it's a huge product that integrates all the technologies. I would like Microsoft to add the threat expert option so we can contact them. There are a few other features, like threat assessment that the PG team is working on. I expect them to release this feature in the next quarter."

"I would like Microsoft Sentinel to enhance its SOAR capabilities."

"The data connectors for third-party tools could be improved, as some aren't available in Sentinel. They need to be available in the data connector panel."

"If you're looking to use canned queries, the interface could be a little more straightforward. It's not immediately intuitive regarding how you use it. You have to take a canned query and paste it into an operational box and then you hit a button... They could improve the ease of deploying these queries."

"We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days."

"We'd like also a better ticketing system, which is older."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Security Hub's pricing is pretty reasonable."

"Security Hub is not an expensive solution."

"The pricing is fine. It is not an expensive tool."

"AWS Security Hub is not an expensive tool. I would consider it to be a cheap solution. AWS Security Hub follows the PAYG pricing model, meaning you will have to pay for whatever you use."

"The cost is based on the number of compliances, core checks, and services required, and for more than 10,000 recommendations, the charge is just one dollar."

"The price of the solution is not very competitive but it is reasonable."

"There are multiple subscription models, like yearly, monthly, and packaged."

"The price of AWS Security Hub is average compared to other solutions."

"Sentinel is costly."

"Cost-wise, Sentinel is based on the volume of information being ingested, so it can be quite pricey. The ability to use strategies to control what data is being ingested is important."

"Sentinel is costly compared to other solutions, but it's fair. SIEM solutions like CrowdStrike charge based on daily log volume. They generally process a set number of logs for free before they start charging. Microsoft's pricing is clearer. It's free under five gigabytes. Some of these logs we ingest have a cost, so they don't hide it. I believe the tenant pays the price, and Microsoft helps create awareness of the cost."

"The are two native advantages for customers that use M365 Security and Sentinel. The first advantage is that the log or security-event ingestion into Sentinel is free. Cost-wise, they're saving a lot and that is a major advantage."

"Sentinel is a bit expensive. If you can figure a way of configuring it to meet your needs, then you can find a way around the cost."

"Sentinel's price is comparable to pretty much everything out there. None of it is cheap, but we didn't think we could save money by going a different route. Sentinel was part of our Azure expenditures, so it was easier to add the expense instead of having a completely separate vendor."

"Microsoft Sentinel is pretty expensive, and they recently announced that they will increase the price of all Microsoft services running in Azure by 11 percent. Luckily, I'm not responsible for the financial side. For one of my clients, the estimated cost is 880,000 euros for one year. There are additional costs for the service agreement."

"From a cost point of view, it is not a cheap product. It's, like, an enterprise-level application. So if you compare it with a low-level application, it's expensive, but if you compare it with the same-level application, it's pretty much cost-effective, I think."

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Answers from the Community

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot

Nov 26, 2021

Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?

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Nov 26, 2021

Hi @Netanya Carmi , Had prepared some comparison factors between AWS and Azure for one of my presales discussions, hope this will hold some insights .So depending on the requirements from the client appropriate solutions can be proposed. Widely Azure Sentinel is what has be going of matching the customer requriements. AI and machine learning AWS service Azure service Description SageMaker Machine Learning A cloud service to train, deploy, automate, and manage machine learning models. Alexa Skills Kit Bot Framework Build and connect intelligent bots that interact with your users using text/SMS, Skype, Teams, Slack, Microsoft 365 mail, Twitter, and other popular services. Lex Speech Services API capable of converting speech to text, understanding intent, and converting text back to speech for natural responsiveness. Lex Language Understanding (LUIS) Allows your applications to understand user commands contextually. Polly, Transcribe Speech Services Enables both Speech to Text, and Text into Speech capabilities. Rekognition Cognitive Services Computer Vision: Extract information from images to categorize and process visual data. Face: Detect, identify, and analyze faces and facial expressions in photos. Skills Kit Virtual Assistant The Virtual Assistant Template brings together a number of best practices we've identified through the building of conversational experiences and automates integration of components that we've found to be highly beneficial to Bot Framework developers. Big data and analytics AWS service Azure service Description Redshift Synapse Analytics Cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data. Lake Formation Data Share A simple and safe service for sharing big data Big data processing AWS service Azure service Description EMR Azure Data Explorer Fully managed, low latency, distributed big data analytics platform to run complex queries across petabytes of data. EMR Databricks Apache Spark-based analytics platform. EMR HDInsight Managed Hadoop service. Deploy and manage Hadoop clusters in Azure. EMR Data Lake Storage Massively scalable, secure data lake functionality built on Azure Blob Storage. Data orchestration / ETL AWS service Azure service Description Data Pipeline, Glue Data Factory Processes and moves data between different compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources at specified intervals. Create, schedule, orchestrate, and manage data pipelines. Glue Azure Purview A unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data. Dynamo DB Table Storage, Cosmos DB NoSQL key-value store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets. Analytics and visualization AWS service Azure service Description Kinesis Analytics Stream Analytics Storage and analysis platforms that create insights from large quantities of data, or data that originates from many sources. Azure Data Explorer Data Lake Analytics Data Lake Store QuickSight Power BI Business intelligence tools that build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and develop business insights from data. CloudSearch Cognitive Search Delivers full-text search and related search analytics and capabilities. Athena Data Lake Analytics Provides a serverless interactive query service that uses standard SQL for analyzing databases. Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. 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Serverless SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics NoSQL/ DynamoDB Cosmos DB Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database that natively supports multiple data models including key-value pairs, documents, graphs and columnar. Document SimpleDB Amazon DocumentDB Caching ElastiCache Cache for Redis An in-memory–based, distributed caching service that provides a high-performance store typically used to offload nontransactional work from a database. Database migration Database Migration Service Database Migration Service A service that executes the migration of database schema and data from one database format to a specific database technology in the cloud.

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?

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What do you like most about AWS Security Hub?

The most valuable features of the solution are the scanning of all the cloud environments and most of the compliances available in the cloud.

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What needs improvement with AWS Security Hub?

It is able to find vulnerabilities, but we are seeing another tool has greater strength in getting the entire assets count from each AWS account and master account, allowing us to look at all vulne...

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Is there a common threat intelligence tool that aggregates multiple threat intelligence sources?

Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel and its Threat Hunting functionality with AI available as templates or customized ...

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What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?

It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Sentinel?

The most valuable feature is the alert notifications, which are categorized by severity levels: informational, low, medium, and high.

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

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Azure Sentinel

Overview

AWS Security Hub is a comprehensive security service that provides a centralized view of security alerts and compliance status across an AWS environment. It collects data from various AWS services, partner solutions, and AWS Marketplace products to provide a holistic view of security posture. With Security Hub, users can quickly identify and prioritize security issues, automate compliance checks, and streamline remediation efforts.

The service offers a range of features including continuous monitoring, threat intelligence integration, and customizable dashboards. It also provides automated insights and recommendations to help users improve their security posture. Security Hub integrates with other AWS services like Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and AWS Macie to provide a unified security experience. Additionally, it supports integration with third-party security tools through its API, allowing users to leverage their existing security investments.

With its user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities, AWS Security Hub is a valuable tool for organizations looking to enhance their security and compliance posture in the cloud.

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Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution that lets you see and stop threats before they cause harm. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing IT costs. With Microsoft Sentinel, you can:

- Collect data at cloud scale—across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds

- Detect previously uncovered threats and minimize false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft

- Investigate threats with AI and hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of cybersecurity work at Microsoft

- Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks

To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

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