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 6.8% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Microsoft’s 13.0% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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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) (16th)

Microsoft Sentinel

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

103

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (4th), Microsoft Security Suite (6th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of AWS Security Hub is 6.8%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 13.0%, down from 20.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Sentinel	13.0%
AWS Security Hub	6.8%
Other	80.2%

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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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Karthik Ekambaram

Director at Scybers

Has helped identify misconfigurations and prioritize risks but lacks multi-cloud support and deeper integration features

AWS Security Hub cannot scale up to multiple different cloud environments; it only works for AWS. There are other products in the market for CSPM that can give you multi-cloud environment misconfigurations, even Microsoft for that matter. Regarding the integration of AWS Security Hub with third-party tools, I am not certain whether we can integrate them, but there is no need to do so. However, AWS Security Hub cannot integrate with other cloud providers, so it only supports the AWS environment. The compliance checks within AWS Security Hub are good, but we don't use them much. We utilize compliance frameworks such as CIS compliance frameworks and ISO 27017 framework, which are beneficial, but it can improve in other areas too, such as including NIST and other frameworks beyond just ISO and CIS. Improvements can be applicable for scalability, particularly on integration with multi-cloud environments, and compliance frameworks can be added for more variety as well. The unified dashboard in AWS Security Hub is adequate; I cannot say it is exceptional, but the content available in the dashboards is satisfactory for now.

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Rob Wille

Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Creates value with advanced investigation capabilities while seeking improved integration with varied platforms

My primary improvement request would be for auxiliary logs, as they represent our biggest need. While we have automated deployments now, Microsoft Sentinel is fairly easy to deploy, although we face challenges with integrations related to AWS and GCP, particularly with Google. The integration challenges arise from both sides; Google tends to be noisy, and we find only ten analytic rules out of the box, necessitating the use of Defender for Cloud for alerts, which indicates a need for better documentation during deployment. The story between UEBA and Defender for Identity and Intra needs to be further explored and defined. There's some confusion on what is happening from a user and entity behavior.

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Pros

"Very good at detection and providing real-time alerts."

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

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

"Cloudposse is a valuable feature as it guarantees my security."

"The most beneficial aspect of Security Hub is its proactive capability, allowing us to identify potential security issues before they escalate."

"I really like the seamless integration with the AWS account structure. It can even be made mandatory as part of the landing zone. These are great features. And there's a single pane of glass for the entire account."

"One of the most effective features of AWS Security Hub is the easy access to a dashboard with a ready-to-use security score."

"It's a security posture management tool from AWS. Basically, it identifies misconfigurations, similar to Trusted Advisor but on a larger scale."

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"Microsoft Sentinel does give me a unified set of tools to detect, investigate, and respond to incidents, and this unified approach is important to me because in today's world with numerous tools available, it's quite important."

"Being able to dictate and train efficiently and in a streamlined way is probably the most value proposition we have for something in this category."

"The ability of Microsoft Sentinel to correlate data from multiple sources greatly helps our threat detection capabilities because correlation enables faster threat detection, even proactively."

"The most valuable features for us include threat collection, threat detection, response, and the knowledge base for investigation."

"The integration between them is good and straightforward, the documentation is excellent, and we do not have any problems."

"It is able to connect to an ever-growing number of platforms and systems within the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, as well as to external services and systems that can be brought in and managed. We can manage on-premises infrastructure. We can manage not just the things that are running in Azure in the public cloud, but through Azure Arc and the hybrid capabilities, we can monitor on-premises servers and endpoints. We can monitor VMware infrastructure, for instance, running as part of a hybrid environment."

"Microsoft Sentinel enables you to ingest data from the entire ecosystem and that connection of data helps you to monitor critical resources and to know what's happening in the environment."

"We can use Sentinel's playbook to block threats. It covers all of the environment, giving us great visibility."

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Cons

"The user interface, graphs, and dashboards of the solution could improve in the future. They are not very sophisticated and could use an update."

"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."

"Shortening the response time for support tickets, particularly in production issues, could make the service more efficient."

"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."

"The solution should be easier to learn and use"

"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 support must be quicker."

"Whenever my team gets some alarms from the central team, my team needs to initiate whether it's a real or false trigger. The central team needs to keep adjusting to the parameters or at least the concerned IPs, whether it's really from the company's pool of IPs, so the trigger process can be improved. In the next release of AWS Security Hub, I'd like a better dashboard that could result in better alert visibility."

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"It could have a better API to be able to automate many things more extensively and get more extensive data and more expensive deployment possibilities. It can gain some points on the automation part and the integration part. The API is very limited, and I would like to see it extended a bit more."

"Microsoft Sentinel should continue adding support for several other security brands because sometimes you have a firewall from a different brand and if you cannot correlate or integrate that seamlessly, it creates multiple points of checking information, which diminishes efficiency."

"The product can be improved by reducing the cost to use AI machine learning."

"If their UI was a bit more streamlined and easy to find when I need it, then that would be a great improvement."

"The troubleshooting has room for improvement."

"Sentinel could improve its ticketing and management. A few customers I have worked with liked to take the data created in Sentinel. You can make some basic efforts around that, but the customers wanted to push it to a third-party system so they could set up a proper ticketing management system, like ServiceNow, Jira, etc."

"It would be good to have some connectors for third-party SIEM solutions. Many customers are struggling with the integration of Azure Sentinel with their on-premise SIEM. Microsoft is changing the log structure many times a year, which can corrupt a custom integration. It would be good to have some connectors developed by Microsoft or supply vendors, but they are not providing such functionality or tools."

"The solution could improve the playbooks."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Security Hub is not an expensive solution."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Microsoft Sentinel's pricing is relatively expensive and extremely confusing."

"No license is required to make use of Sentinel, but you need to buy products to get the data. In general, the price of those products is comparable to similar products."

"We only pay for the amount of data we bring in, which is fair."

"From a cost perspective, there are some additional charges in addition to the licensing."

"It comes with a Microsoft subscription which the customer has, so they don't have to invest somewhere else."

"Sentinel can be expensive. When you ingest data from sources that are outside of the cloud, you're paying a fair amount for that data ingestion. When you're ingesting data sources from within the cloud, depending on what your retention periods are, it's not that expensive."

"It is priced fairly given the value that you get from the use of the product. The biggest mistake people make with Microsoft Sentinel is not understanding the pricing model and the amount of data that they are going to be running through the tool because you are paying based on the flow. You are paying based on the amount of data that is moving through the tool. People do not plan, and therefore, they get surprised by the cost associated with using the tool. They connect everything because they want to know everything, but connecting everything is very expensive."

"Azure Sentinel is very costly, or at least it appears to be very costly. The costs vary based on your ingestion and your retention charges."

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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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Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or dedicated resources at scale. Elasticsearch Service Elastic on Azure Use the Elastic Stack (Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana) to search, analyze, and visualize in real time. Database Type AWS Service Azure Service Description Relational database RDS SQL Database Managed relational database services in which resiliency, scale and maintenance are primarily handled by the Azure platform. Database for MySQL Database for PostgreSQL Database for MariaDB Serverless relational database Amazon Aurora Serverless Azure SQL Database serverless Database offerings that automatically scales compute based on the workload demand. You're billed per second for the actual compute used (Azure SQL)/data that's processed by your queries (Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless). 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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	38
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	44

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?

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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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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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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