AWS Security Hub
AWS's central security posture management service aggregating findings from AWS and third-party security tools.
What it does
AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security findings from across AWS services - Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Firewall Manager - and from integrated third-party security tools into a single dashboard. AI capabilities include Amazon Detective integration for AI-assisted root cause analysis of security findings, automated security checks against AWS best practices and compliance standards (CIS, PCI DSS, SOC 2), and AI-prioritized remediation recommendations. Security Hub is the AWS-native starting point for cloud security visibility - built for organizations already on AWS who need a centralized view without deploying a third-party CSPM tool.
Why AI-ENHANCED
AWS Security Hub is an established cloud security aggregation service that has integrated automated compliance checking, AI-assisted investigation through Amazon Detective, and intelligent finding prioritization into a mature AWS security management product.
Best for
AWS-hosted small businesses use Security Hub's free 30-day trial to assess their security posture - automated compliance checks identifying misconfigurations before they become incidents.
Mid-market engineering teams use Security Hub as their AWS security dashboard - aggregating GuardDuty threat findings, Inspector vulnerability data, and compliance status in one place.
Limitations
Security Hub only covers AWS environments — organizations with multi-cloud deployments on Azure or GCP need supplementary tools like Wiz or Orca Security for unified multi-cloud security posture.
Security Hub collects and displays findings from other services but is not itself a threat detection or response platform — it requires GuardDuty, Inspector, and other services for actual detection capability.
Without tuning, Security Hub generates extremely high finding volumes — organizations must invest in suppression rules and severity configuration to make the dashboard actionable.
Alternatives by segment
| If you need… | Consider instead |
|---|---|
| Multi-cloud security posture management | Wiz |
| Agentless multi-cloud security | Orca Security |
| Enterprise SIEM with cloud coverage | Splunk |
30-day free trial. After trial: approximately $0.0010 per finding/month. Compliance checks at $0.0020 per check/month. Costs scale with AWS environment size. Typically very low absolute cost for most organizations.
✓ Free tier available
