We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Amazon CloudWatch users liked the solution’s simplicity, intuitive interface, and ability to handle large workloads. Users also praised CloudWatch’s comprehensive monitoring and alerts. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization through. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Customers generally have positive opinions about Amazon's customer service. They commended the support team for its availability and timely issue resolution. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Amazon CloudWatch offers a flexible pricing structure based on usage and processing without any separate licensing cost. Some users said that scaling up can be costly due to the need for additional storage space. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"Every time we get an alarm or have an incident, CloudWatch is always there. We use it not only for resources we've spun up in the cloud, but also for some of our on-premises resources."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"The product is easy to customize."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"The MITRE ATT&CK correlation is most valuable."
"I like the features we use, including malware detection, inventory, detection of hidden processes, and activity logs. Inventory is probably the most important feature. It tells us when processes and packages were installed and what they are, which is helpful."
"One of the most beneficial features of Wazuh, particularly in the context of security needs, is the machine learning data handling capability."
"I find the PCI DSS feature the most valuable, along with the feature that monitors the compliance of Windows and the CIS benchmarks on other devices like Unix or Linux systems."
"It's stable."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The graphical interface has room for improvement. CloudWatch only gives you a breakdown of what's wrong. However, it would be nice if it could automatically remedy the problems it identifies. You should be able to configure it so that when a specific condition arises, it will take a predefined action."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"Wazuh doesn't cover sources of events as well as Splunk. You can integrate Splunk with many sources of events, but it's a painful process to take care of some sources of events with Wazuh."
"Its user interface for sure can be improved. It is not so comfortable to use if you're looking for specific logs."
"The tool doesn't detect anomalies or new environments."
"A lack of certain features creates limitations."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"While it is scalable, it can suffer from reduced latencies."
"There could be a hardware monitoring tool for the solution."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Nagios XI, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Graylog. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Wazuh report.
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