Amazon GuardDuty vs. Microsoft Sentinel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon GuardDuty
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads.N/A
Microsoft Sentinel
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is designed as a birds-eye view across the enterprise. It is presented as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response.
$2.46
per GB ingested
Pricing
Amazon GuardDutyMicrosoft Sentinel
Editions & Modules
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Azure Sentinel
$2.46
per GB ingested
100 GB per day
$123.00
per day
200 GB per day
$221.40
per day
300 GB per day
$319.80
per day
400 GB per day
$410.00
per day
500 GB per day
$492.00
per day
More than 500 GB per day
$492.00 + $98.40
per day/plus each additional 100 GB increment
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon GuardDutyMicrosoft Sentinel
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
Amazon GuardDutyMicrosoft Sentinel
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon GuardDuty
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Ratings
Microsoft Sentinel
8.0
16 Ratings
2% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings8.116 Ratings
Correlation00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
Deployment flexibility00 Ratings8.615 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings7.613 Ratings
Data integration/API management00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings8.415 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon GuardDutyMicrosoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(24 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon GuardDutyMicrosoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
In a multi-account/multi-tenant environment, GuardDuty often alerts us to possible malicious traffic before it becomes an issue. The ability to automatically enable GuardDuty creates baseline security which is crucial when an account is first created. It also helps greatly in environments where other users are able to create resources as often GuardDuty alerts us to insecure resources we did not know about. It can however sometimes be a little overzealous with its assessments alerting on benign activity which then requires suppression rules.
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Microsoft
Well, it's definitely suited to log in monitor most of the normal security infrastructure and collect security telemetry. It also extends well to Microsoft's entire suite with regards to data collection for things like Office 365, Power BI, power apps, and the like. It is also pretty good at collecting information from homegrown applications, especially if you're building in Azure.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Monitors outgoing connections from AWS resources to known malicious hosts.
  • Monitors incoming connection to AWS resources from known malicious hosts.
  • Integrates with other centralized logging solutions.
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Microsoft
  • Sentinel is by far the most efficient tool in supporting the highest number of solutions and products when it comes to data connection (or ingestion) and that too in the least complex manner possible. Most of the data connectors in Sentinel are very easy to configure and deploy.
  • Incident Management is undoubtedly one of the main USPs of Sentinel. With an easy-to-use UI, variety of utilities (adding tasks, manual triggering of playbooks, activity logs etc.) and provision of having an investigation map from the incident details page, Sentinel clearly stands out in this area.
  • I personally love the feature of integrating 'Threat Intelligence' to Sentinel from a free and one of the most reliable sources, Microsoft itself. This not only saves time for an analyst in checking the reputation of an entity but also allows to take actions on the suspicious entities at earliest.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Does not have the ability to add any custom monitors.
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Microsoft
  • It takes some time to learn how to use and install it properly, and it does not connect effectively with external PaaS systems such as Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and so on.
  • Microsoft can simplify the display of the logs to make them easier to study, and the user interface occasionally delays, which can also be enhanced.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Microsoft
The Microsoft Azure Sentinel solution is very good and even better if you use Azure. It's easy to implement and learn how to use the tool with an intuitive and simple interface. New updates are happening to always bring new news and improve the experience and usability. The solution brings reliability as it is from a very reliable manufacturer.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Microsoft
Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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Microsoft
The key advantage of using Sentinel lies in Microsoft already being a renowned name in cloud services. Hence, the Collection of data at the cloud scale across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and especially in the MS Cloud, is super easy. Additionally, leveraging Threat Intel from Microsoft itself gives a sense of security, given their years of experience in the collection of intel. The AI and Machine learning features provided by MS is one of the finest.
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Professional Services
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Did not use professional services
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • GuardDuty has helped us prevent possible security incidents multiple times which could have caused substantial damage.
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Microsoft
  • Less overhead on integration of cloud-native logging
  • The KQL language is very helpful since it can be used for security and operational monitoring but as well for workbooks and dashboarding
  • A large community developing solutions is very helpful for a quick adoption
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