G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon GuardDuty vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon GuardDuty

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.14.4
Review count57457
Ease of use8.98.8
Ease of setup9.08.7
Quality of support9.18.7
Meets requirements9.19.0
NPS31.48148159.579439
Small Business33.3%27.6%
Mid-Market28.1%37.5%
Enterprise38.6%34.9%
Total page views2201,173
Total LLM citations4746,652

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads.GuardDuty also detects potentially compromised instances or reconnaissance by attackers.

Pros

    Microsoft Defender for Cloud

    Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud native application protection platform for multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime.

    Pros

    • Security
    • Comprehensive Security
    • Cloud Security
    • Vulnerability Detection
    • Threat Detection
    • Threat Protection