We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Amazon CloudWatch users liked the solution’s simplicity, intuitive interface, and ability to handle large workloads. Users also praised CloudWatch’s comprehensive monitoring and alerts. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization through. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Customers generally have positive opinions about Amazon's customer service. They commended the support team for its availability and timely issue resolution. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Amazon CloudWatch offers a flexible pricing structure based on usage and processing without any separate licensing cost. Some users said that scaling up can be costly due to the need for additional storage space. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"The monitoring feature is valuable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"The configuration assessment and Pile integrity monitoring features are decent."
"It is a stable solution."
"Good for monitoring, active response, and for vulnerabilities."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Wazuh is the ELK for doing an investigation."
"I like that the solution is on top of the Kubernetes stack."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"The technical support must be improved."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"Amazon CloudWatch's pricing needs improvement."
"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"Scalability is a constraint in the on-prem version of Wazuh in terms of the volume of logs we can manage."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"Log data analysis could be improved. My IT team has been looking for an alternative because they want better log data for malware detection. We are also doing more container implementation also, so we need better container security, log data analysis, auditing and compliance, malware detection, etc."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and Amazon OpenSearch Service, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Graylog. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Wazuh report.
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