Amazon Inspector vs Wiz comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Wiz are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #26 with an average rating of 8.6, while Wiz is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.0% mindshare in VM, compared to Wiz’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Wiz users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Amazon Inspector and Wiz compete in cloud security and vulnerability management. Wiz has the upper hand due to its advanced features and extensive cloud coverage.

Features: Amazon Inspector offers automated security assessments, seamless integration with AWS services, and effective vulnerability detection. Wiz provides comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud environments, robust risk prioritization, and advanced threat intelligence, offering broader scope and deeper insights.

Room for Improvement: Amazon Inspector could enhance its capabilities beyond AWS, provide more detailed threat intelligence, and offer a more flexible deployment model. Wiz could improve its cost transparency, simplify its deployment process, and enhance support for users unfamiliar with multi-cloud management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon Inspector provides straightforward deployment within AWS and reliable customer support. Wiz offers flexible deployment for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, backed by responsive customer service. Its ability to adapt makes it suitable for complex infrastructures.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon Inspector offers cost-effective solutions for AWS users, emphasizing transparent pricing and predictable ROI. Wiz, while requiring a higher initial investment, provides significant long-term ROI through comprehensive security measures and extensive cloud coverage. The pricing often depends on service usage and coverage.

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Qualys TotalCloud

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Inspector is 1.0%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wiz is 4.2%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Wiz	4.2%
Qualys TotalCloud	1.2%
Amazon Inspector	1.0%
Other	93.6%

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Featured Reviews

Robert Orłowski

IT Security Expert at Alior Bank S.A.

Unified risk scoring has improved our cloud visibility and simplifies remediation priorities

Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IAS and SaaS. This solution provides a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce the work I would have to do. We are no longer based on CVSS; we are based on Qualys risk scoring, which is based on CVSS plus internal findings made by Qualys, and then assigns its own score. The TruRisk insight feature has found a small number of assets with high vulnerability scores, though I am cautious since some information is classified. Qualys TotalCloud has positively impacted our bank's performance, and we have definitely seen benefits after implementing this solution.

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Abdalla Kenawy

AWS DevOps SRE/Infrastructure Engineer at Capgemini

Automated insights streamline data security assessment

For Amazon Inspector, we have many EC2 or virtual machines deployed inside our AWS environment, and the problem is that the existing package deployed inside this EC2 instance has already outdated packages. As we progress with time, this package needs to be updated for security enhancement, which requires us to uninstall the package, install the new version, and then we should be fine. However, the challenge comes with how to scan all our EC2 instances for security vulnerabilities, which is currently managed by Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector can scan EC2 instances or ECR, which is the ECR registry where we can save artifacts Docker images. Amazon Inspector can also scan Docker images uploaded to ECR for Elastic Registry service, and it can scan databases and S3 based on the latest updates. I noticed this from a couple of months ago, and it provides huge benefits for security. Regarding the best features of Amazon Inspector, it gives us a list of all existing outdated packages as part of a deployed package on EC2 instances or specific Python packages that are part of the Docker file and the Docker image itself, which are causing security concerns. Amazon Inspector can list these security concerns and offer guidance on how we can remediate it by updating the package to a specific upper version or something similar.

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Peter Whelan

CISO at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Improved our security posture thanks to comprehensive visibility

I have contacted Wiz technical support frequently. The support is excellent. We contact via an in-application portal. We can see the support cases we personally open, and also the cases that other people have opened from our company. I appreciate that feature. Generally, support gets back to us within a few days with a good answer. There was one fellow in particular who has been knocking it out of the park. He is a great support person to deal with. We are happy with the support experience. If I were to put Wiz support on a scale from one to ten, I would give them a ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the consolidated information that it provides from various platforms."

"Its dashboards are brilliant. It provides in-depth insights."

"Vulnerability and threat detection and assessment of the criticality of the vulnerabilities exposed are most valuable."

"I like the web API security and IoT scanning features the most. The user-friendly design of TotalCloud's interface enables customers to navigate it and use its full potential easily"

"With TotalCloud, we can scan through the API. If we are not able to deploy cloud agents on the machine, we can use the API."

"The dashboards are particularly valuable as they offer a comprehensive view of the environment, highlighting any misconfigurations."

"CSPM is currently the most used feature, and we are enjoying the new feature, FlexScan, which is valuable for Internet-facing VMs."

"Qualys TotalCloud's most valuable features are its cloud security posture management, Kubernetes, and container security capabilities."

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"The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security. Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integrate third-party tools as well. It is just a single-click option."

"Amazon Inspector is highly stable, rated ten out of ten, and this stability impacts business security and administration positively."

"The findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It offers an easy-to-understand layout."

"It is scanning the whole repository for any sort of vulnerabilities, so it allows us to be more confident in our DevSecOps and not put a lot of folks or attention to it."

"I recommend Amazon Inspector because it allows the automation of processes and requires less manual monitoring."

"The scalability of the solution itself is unparalleled."

"It operates continuously, so as soon as resources are created, it scans them for vulnerabilities."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon Inspector is the categorization of findings, which filters vulnerabilities by instance, container image, container repository, and Lambda function."

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"The biggest impact Wiz has had on our organization is improved visibility and better prioritization, as previously mentioned."

"Overall, I believe Wiz is doing a great job, simplifying many aspects for security professionals and enterprises."

"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."

"For any organization who want to think of moving to Wiz, the Security Graph feature is amazing and awesome, giving you deeper information than any other tools does and allowing a small security team to manage a massive complex cloud environment without hiring dozens of additional users to look into it."

"Wiz has helped me consolidate some tools, as it is not just doing the job of the security tool alone, and we do not need to invest in multiple tools because all aspects such as infrastructure, application, vulnerabilities, and the regular security scoring patterns are in-built into Wiz along with the inventory manager."

"The tool is very powerful in nature."

"Wiz has impacted our organization very positively because it includes various advanced features such as compliance audits, continuous security monitoring, and vulnerability management, along with cloud assistance and DevSecOps integration."

"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."

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Cons

"To improve the user experience, reporting could be simplified for better comprehension by end users and project managers, facilitating issue resolution."

"The support process is inefficient due to the excessive number of replies required when submitting tickets."

"There is a lack of data segregation according to criticality or inventory."

"An area for improvement would be to focus on risks related to AI, such as large language models and potential data leakage."

"Qualys' customer service provides quality answers, but the response time is long, even though it is within the SLA."

"Qualys TotalCloud needs to enhance its scanning capabilities in the IP domain, as it currently lacks the functionality to resolve IPs to their corresponding domain names."

"Their support could be improved."

"The price is very expensive, actually."

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"There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected."

"The other point is that the reporting features of Inspector need improvement. For example, I am in an organization with millions of CVEs, and getting an overview of all this is challenging."

"The most challenging aspect I faced with Amazon Inspector during integration was automating the remediation process."

"There are challenges associated with the interdependencies in AWS services, like requiring an Active Directory for other services, resulting in additional charges."

"The false positive rate of Amazon Inspector is a little high, and it is not covering all different applications and scanning."

"One major area for improvement is remediation. My team works on remediating findings over time, likely using available patches. However, easier integration with Amazon's patching services would be very helpful."

"It has automated vulnerability assessment, yet I seek more flexibility in defining custom vulnerability checks tailored to my needs, which is more difficult."

"It has a limited scope. So, AWS Inspector primarily focuses on the security of the EC2 instance. So, if your architecture includes other AWS services, then you may need to use additional tools for your comprehensive security assessment. So that is one con. Another is, like, we have a dependency on agents."

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"When integrating multiple clouds like hybrid cloud with Wiz, these processes need to be more user-friendly because more scripting is required in this scenario."

"More or less, Wiz is doing well, but the false alerts at random times would be another area for improvement."

"Wiz's pricing model is very poor."

"As for stability, we have seen some issues where our results changed radically from one day to the next, but we had not made radical changes, so we opened a case with support."

"I have seen some lagging or downtime a couple of times, but I am not sure why it happened."

"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."

"The solution's container security could be improved."

"Wiz is not agnostic compared to other competitors in the market. If you want to add a new integration to another platform, it does not have an easy plug-and-play option for whatever platform."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing for TotalCloud is attractive and competitive in the market. Given the features, especially the dashboard, I have no concerns regarding pricing."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers competitive pricing given its comprehensive suite of features, including integration, assessment, remediation, and detection capabilities, all within a single platform."

"While Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive and may soon be considered overpriced."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers good pricing that is affordable and competitive with the market. Our partnership also provides us with additional benefits."

"I am not sure about the pricing. From what I understand, it is a bit on the higher side, but I do not have the exact numbers."

"It isn't cheap, but it's reasonable. It helps us to manage things with very few resources."

"Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches."

"Although Qualys TotalCloud is relatively expensive due to its unique automation features, its cost-effectiveness is rated an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."

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"The pricing is very transparent and clear."

"It is scaled as you go. There are probably a certain number of scans per month, and there are tiers. If you're under a certain tier, it is free. The second level is pennies, and then all the way up to like a million. So, it has a tiered pricing program. They're pretty good with your initial scanning, and there is room to scale based on being affordable, but it is fairly cheap. There are no additional costs. They pretty much think about it as a pay-per-scan type model."

"It's priced according to market standards for its services."

"The lowest cost would be around $10 for a few small accounts, however, for thousands of accounts, it could be around $5000 to $6000 dollars per month."

"The cost of the other solutions is comparable to Wiz."

"Based on the features and capabilities, the product pricing seems reasonable."

"The pricing is fair and comparable to their competitors. The cost seems to be going up, which is a concern. There are potential savings from consolidating tools, but we're uncertain how Wiz's pricing will change over time."

"The pricing seems pretty simple. We don't have to do a lot of calculations to figure out what the components are. They do it by enabling specific features, either basics or advanced, which makes it easy to select."

"The pricing is fair. Some of the more advanced features and functionalities and how the tiers are split can be somewhat confusing."

"Regarding pricing, it’s more than $100k because we have a very big infrastructure. Our environment supports around three thousand people, and we offer business-to-client financial services to around one million clients, so we rely heavily on Wiz."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price as a five out of ten."

"I wish the pricing was more transparent."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	30

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	31

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?

The price is very expensive, actually.

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What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?

To be totally honest, I do not have any best features because I have had a bad experience using this tool, especially...

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What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?

My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is vulnerability management and exposure management. I use this tool to evalua...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Inspector?

I am not honestly sure about the pricing side of Amazon Inspector, but that is taken care of by a separate team. I be...

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What needs improvement with Amazon Inspector?

They might launch support for third-party environments in the next version regarding the best features in Amazon Insp...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon Inspector?

I mostly use Amazon Inspector for vulnerability scanning on AWS native applications. For hybrid applications, we have...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wiz?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been very poor.

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What needs improvement with Wiz?

As an extensive user of Wiz, I have noticed that one critical area Wiz is missing is context. It is performing well i...

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What is your primary use case for Wiz?

I am using Wiz for CNAPP and DSPM, primarily for vulnerability and exposure management. These are the key areas I am ...

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Overview

Qualys TotalCloud enhances security posture across cloud environments with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and risk visualization, ensuring efficient threat assessment and automated remediation for improved cyber risk reduction.

Qualys TotalCloud offers a robust suite of security tools essential for organizations managing multi-cloud infrastructures. By integrating cloud accounts and automating workflows, it supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, offering comprehensive vulnerability management and zero-day detection. The platform's user-friendly design, combined with its extensive risk management and unified threat assessment capabilities, enables organizations to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. TruRisk Insights provides clear insights on cyber risks, while the automation options streamline patch management and scanning processes. API integration across IaaS and SaaS environments further enhances resource allocation efficiency and saves time, addressing misconfigurations across cloud environments.

What are the most important features of Qualys TotalCloud?

Accurate Vulnerability Reports: Delivers precise and actionable insights for risk mitigation.
Zero-Day Detection: Identifies and addresses zero-day vulnerabilities proactively.
Unified Threat Assessment: Offers comprehensive evaluation of threats across the environment.
Extensive Risk Management: Manages risks effectively with advanced insights and prioritization.
Continuous Monitoring: Provides non-stop surveillance for vulnerabilities and threats.
Cloud-Native Automation: Streamlines processes and reduces manual efforts using automation.
FlexScan for Internet-Facing VMs: Scans external VMs efficiently to detect vulnerabilities.
Dashboard Risk Visualization: Clear visualization helps prioritize vulnerabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Security Posture: Enhances threat detection and response across clouds.
Time Savings: Automation reduces time spent on manual vulnerability management.
Resource Efficiency: Better allocation of resources through streamlined workflows.
Enhanced Risk Prioritization: Focus on critical vulnerabilities for effective mitigation.
Integrated Cloud Accounts: Facilitates seamless cloud management and security.

Qualys TotalCloud is deployed in sectors needing rigorous vulnerability management, such as finance and healthcare. Companies utilize it to secure multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on compliance, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines to detect and remedy threats pre-deployment.

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Amazon Inspector offers automated vulnerability detection, scanning AWS workloads and recommending remediation, ensuring enhanced security without constant supervision.

Amazon Inspector provides advanced automated vulnerability assessments, specifically designed for AWS environments. It scans EC2 instances, ECR, and container images for vulnerabilities, ranking them by priority. With capabilities like integration with CloudTrail and CloudWatch, adherence to compliance benchmarks, and a comprehensive view for diverse resources, it supports continuous detection and detailed reporting. Users can schedule regular scans, maintaining strong security oversight. Current feedback highlights a need for improved scanning of EBS, S3, and EFS, as well as expanded databases and better patch integration.

What features make Amazon Inspector stand out?

Automated Vulnerability Assessments: Detects and prioritizes vulnerabilities in AWS workloads.
Continuous Detection: Keeps an eye on EC2, ECR, and container images for ongoing risk management.
Integration Capabilities: Works with CloudTrail and CloudWatch to centralize oversight and alerts.
Compliance Adherence: Aligns with industry benchmarks for strengthened regulatory compliance.
Detailed Reporting: Provides comprehensive reports with findings and CVEs.

What benefits do users gain from Amazon Inspector?

Enhanced Security: Automates vulnerability detection, reducing manual efforts.
Efficiency: Identifies and prioritizes threats, streamlining resource allocation.
Comprehensive Oversight: Detailed reports improve understanding and response strategies.
Regulatory Compliance: Aligns with compliance standards, aiding legal adherence.

Amazon Inspector is utilized across industries, including finance, healthcare, and tech, assisting with robust security management in cloud-native environments. By integrating with services like Security Hub and SIEM, businesses maintain compliance and streamline alert management. This solution supports broader security frameworks, often paired with third-party tools to enhance protection strategies.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Wiz is the industry’s first AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP), empowering organizations to securely protect everything they build and run at machine speed. Moving beyond traditional cloud security management, Wiz unifies Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), and Attack Surface Management (ASM) into a single, cohesive platform. It provides 100% agentless visibility across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, and more) and Kubernetes, instantly discovering everything from traditional virtual machines to dynamic AI agents, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Model Context Protocols (MCPs). To help organizations stay resilient in the AI threat landscape, Wiz features an agentic security operating model with specialized AI Agents (Red, Blue, and Green) that autonomously investigate threats, validate exploitability, and remediate risks paired with Wiz Workflows to automate and customize response as fast as risk is discovered, directly in the tools teams work in. Users adopt Wiz to eliminate toxic combinations of risk, secure AI pipelines, automate compliance, and achieve zero critical vulnerabilities.

What are the key features of Wiz?

AI-Enriched Security Graph: Models relationships across code, cloud infrastructure, identities, data, and AI components to pinpoint "toxic combinations" of risk and actual attack paths.
Wiz AI Agents & Workflows: Features the Red Agent (an autonomous AI pentester that validates complex, exploitable risks), Blue Agent (an automated threat investigator for runtime alerts), and Green Agent (a resolution engine that identifies the safest, fastest remediation paths back to the root cause in code). Wiz Workflows orchestrates these agents and the remediation lifecycle across the platform, fully customizable to each organization’s processes and integrated with the tools teams already use. Consolidated Cloud & AI Posture Management: Unifies CSPM with AI-SPM (AI Security Posture Management) and DSPM, securing everything from traditional cloud assets to AI models and sensitive training data with a single scanning engine.
Advanced Agentless Deployment: Deploys in minutes via API to provide complete full-stack visibility without disrupting business operations, expanding to instantly discover hidden AI tools, shadow APIs, and "vibe-coded" applications.
Wiz Code & Wiz Defend: Extends protection from code to runtime, offering context-aware AI-SAST (in preview) for deep code analysis, zero-config code-to-cloud mapping, and real-time threat detection across cloud workloads and Kubernetes.

What benefits should users expect?

Machine-Speed Defense: Goes beyond "time efficiency" by using AI to autonomously triage alerts, automatically trace risks to the exact code owner, and provide 1-click in-code fixes, keeping pace with rapid AI-driven development.
Definitive Exploitability & Enhanced Security: Instead of overwhelming teams with noisy, theoretical alerts, Wiz safely simulates multi-step attacks from the outside in to definitively validate which vulnerabilities actually represent critical business risk and blast radius.
Automated Compliance & Governance: Streamlines compliance processes across over 100 built-in frameworks, mapping regulatory requirements directly to cloud and data security postures.
Democratized Security & Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by allowing organizations to retire siloed legacy tools. With role-based access and over 240 integrations, Wiz delivers prescriptive remediation guidance directly to developers in the tools they already work in - giving them the context to independently fix issues before they’re ever committed. Companies in industries with complex architectures, such as finance, healthcare, and retail, leverage Wiz for its comprehensive multi-cloud and Kubernetes support to manage risks and compliance efficiently. Furthermore, as organizations of all sizes rapidly adopt Generative AI, they rely on Wiz to securely implement AI agents, protect sensitive customer data from exposure, and enforce preventative security guardrails directly within the AI software development lifecycle.

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