Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud monitors and protects cloud infrastructure, applications, and data across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments against threats.
Summary
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a commercial cnapp service that runs as a cloud-native workload, requiring no agents to install on a laptop or server before it starts assessing risk. It extends its posture management to serverless containers, giving continuous assessment and visibility into workloads running on Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Instances, and AWS ECSAWS ECSAmazon's managed container orchestration service that runs Docker containers on clusters of EC2 instances or Fargate, letting tools offload scheduling, scaling, and infrastructure management to AWS. on Fargate, which matters for teams that have moved past VM-based workloads into container platforms they don't fully control. It is aimed at cloud security teams and platform engineers responsible for posture across mixed Azure and AWS estates rather than at developers debugging a single application. It sits in the cloud-native application protection category, covering ground that used to require separate posture and runtime tools stitched together.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud monitors and protects cloud infrastructure, applications, and data across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments against threats.
How Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps
Which of my serverless container workloads have a posture problem I can't see because there's no host to install an agent on?
assesses Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Instances, and AWS ECS on Fargate continuously without requiring an agent, and reports the misconfigurations found
Which of my resources across Azure and AWS fall short of a security baseline?
evaluates configuration against posture recommendations across both clouds and lists the resources that fail, grouped by the check they failed
Is a running workload behaving in a way that suggests it's compromised?
correlates signals from the workload with threat intelligence and raises an alert naming the resource and the suspicious behavior observed
Where is my mixed-cloud estate exposed because a team stood up infrastructure outside normal review?
continuously discovers resources across Azure and AWS and folds them into posture assessment as they appear, rather than only at a scheduled scan
Which container platforms in my estate are outside VM-based protections I already rely on?
extends the same posture assessment used for VMs to serverless container services, closing the gap for workloads a team doesn't fully control the underlying host for
Have recent changes to my cloud environment introduced a risk that wasn't there before?
reassesses posture continuously rather than at a fixed interval, so a new gap shows up as it's introduced instead of at the next scheduled review
Release-note detail over time
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Commercials
pricing & packaging history · Microsoft vendor page16 readings of Microsoft's pricing page since Mar 2022, with 3 relaunches of its plan lineup — each one dated, compared with the reading before it, and explained for someone buying the tool.
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Website history
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Releases
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- July 20261
Integrates with
Explore documented product relationships, workflows and source coverage. Documentary evidence does not confirm current support or your installation's fit.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud · Microsoft
| Provider product | Target product | Workflow | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) · Product without a Toolchain page | Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Import cloud assets, Import vulnerabilities and misconfigurations Data flows into the provider · Availability unknown |
Source 1 not confirmed |
| Tenable One | Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Import cloud assets, Import security recommendations Data flows into the provider · Availability unknown |
Source 1 not confirmed |
| Red Canary MDR for Zscaler · Product without a Toolchain page | Microsoft Defender for Cloud | cloud alert ingestion, alert investigation Data flows into the provider · Availability unknown |
Source 1 not confirmed |
| Rapid7 InsightIDR | Microsoft Defender for Cloud | alert ingestion Data flows into the provider · Availability unknown |
Source 1 not confirmed |
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