We performed a comparison between AWS GuardDuty and Uptycs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Wiz and others in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)."Deployment is great, and we didn't face any big challenges."
"The solution is easy to use."
"With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavior or traffic patterns right away, which is great for staying on top of potential security risks."
"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."
"We use the tool for threat detection. AWS includes AI features as well. AWS GuardDuty gives us reports."
"The way it monitors accounts is definitely a very important feature."
"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."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"They have multiple great features."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."
"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."
"We currently find Lacework to be much better at detecting vulnerabilities than AWS GuardDuty. The engines of AWS GuardDuty have to be improved."
"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."
"Cost changes. It's very expensive. If you turn on every feature, it's more than most commercial vendors. For smaller orgs, that doesn't make sense."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"AWS GuardDuty sometimes shows false positives and should have better detection accuracy."
"We end up facing a lot of issues after upgrades."
AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 20 reviews while Uptycs is ranked 24th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 1 review. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.0, while Uptycs is rated 8.0. 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 Uptycs writes "Great features, good support, and lots of functionality". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, whereas Uptycs is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Wiz, Orca Security and Lacework.
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