Amazon EKS vs Sysdig Secure comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Sysdig are both solutions in the Container Security category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.7, while Sysdig is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 0.1% mindshare in Container Security, compared to Sysdig’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sysdig users who would recommend it.

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Sysdig Secure and Amazon EKS compete in the containerized environment security space. Amazon EKS seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive integration with the AWS ecosystem and extensive scalability features.

Features: Sysdig Secure provides essential security features such as runtime protection, compliance checks, and vulnerability management. Amazon EKS stands out with scalability, flexibility, and seamless integration with other AWS services.

Room for Improvement: Sysdig Secure could benefit from enhanced integration capabilities, reduced configuration complexity, and improved documentation. Amazon EKS should focus on better documentation, simpler cluster management, and enhanced customer support responsiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sysdig Secure is noted for its straightforward deployment in container environments but has a complex initial setup. Amazon EKS is easier to deploy within the AWS cloud but requires better customer support responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Sysdig Secure's pricing is high but justified by its security features. Amazon EKS is cost-effective due to its integration with existing AWS subscriptions, providing better ROI from its scalability and lower incremental costs.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon EKS vs. Sysdig Secure Report (Updated: March 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Amazon EKS vs. Sysdig Secure

March 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 847,625 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon EKS is 0.1%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sysdig Secure is 2.5%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Security

Featured Reviews

Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

Read full review

Rock Wang

cloud architect at selfstarter

Managing complex environments effortlessly while focusing on growth

The most beneficial aspect of Amazon EKS is that it helps manage the Kubernetes master node, so I don't need to maintain the master node, including tasks like upgrading. This allows me to focus on business code. If using services like Fargate, I only need to maintain my workload, simply uploading code that will be deployed to the Kubernetes cluster. This is especially beneficial for startup companies that lack the technical resources to manage the Kubernetes cluster. Furthermore, Amazon EKS allows me to utilize Kubernetes cluster-level expansion. If there’s insufficient resource on a machine, the cluster can automatically expand to add new nodes.

Read full review

Peter Du

CISO at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees

Gives real-time visibility and helps to articulate constantly-changing landscape

The main benefit for me personally is being able to articulate the ever-growing, dynamic, and constantly changing landscape. Just today, in a management leadership call, I was able to demonstrate that although we are solving a lot of these vulnerabilities, we are picking up new vulnerabilities each and every day. It allows me to articulate the importance of information security with actual real-time data. Sysdig's runtime insights help us detect and respond to threats that are happening in real-time. We can look at Sysdig dashboards or run reports to see precisely what happens in our runtime environment. A good use case of this was that when zero-day vulnerabilities came out, we could scan our environment to see if the vulnerabilities apply to any of our production workloads. Sysdig Secure helps us prioritize issues and distribute work. We are a small company, so we do not have multiple security or dev teams. We have two or three guys on my team. Having the ability to focus on critical vulnerabilities is crucial. It does not make sense to prioritize low-level threats when we have limited time. We do not use live threat investigation features as much as we would like because of different priorities, but it is something that we do use. Over time, it shows us whether we are putting the right effort into resolving issues. For example, when we look at the dashboard scene over a 30-day period, we can see whether the critical vulnerabilities are increasing or decreasing. It lets us know whether we are on the right track. We are currently using agentless scanning. Deploying it onto our cluster has enabled us to get full visibility into what is running on our cluster. Sysdig provides us with the contextual awareness we need to create an immediate incident response strategy. It provides links to the threat and explains the threat and the resolution possible. It equips us with the right information to make a decision on whether to address the threat immediately or take a risk in terms of deploying remediation. Sysdig has not enabled us to reduce the number of security tools we use. We were not using anything before Sysdig, and after choosing Sysdig, we did not have a need to look at anything else. Sysdig has not helped reduce external SOC costs. We are a very small business, so we do not have the budget for an external SOC. However, it has definitely alleviated the pressure to look for one and to source an external SOC. We have a project history to look at a virtual SOC and leverage tools that we do have, and Sysdig is a part of that. There is definitely a saving there because we have not had the need to go out and look for an external SOC. Sysdig has helped reduce the percentage of workloads that have security exposures that put the organization at risk. It has reduced the workload, mainly from an understanding of where we can assign work to cover the most ground in terms of resolving vulnerabilities.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I recommend SentinelOne due to its high-security capabilities, which are essential to safeguard data and systems from potential threats."

"The Offensive Security Engine, powered by impressive AI/ML capabilities, seamlessly integrates with cloud infrastructure to analyze data and provide optimal security solutions."

"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."

"The offensive security feature is valuable because it publicly detects the offensive and vulnerable things present in our domain or applications. It checks any applications with public access. Some of the applications give public access to certain files or are present over a particular domain. It detects and lets us know with evidence. That is quite good. It is protecting our infrastructure quite well."

"The best features we value in SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security include compliance monitoring features, as we are a frequently audited company. They provide reports with compliance scores, showing how well we meet certain regulatory standards, such as HIPAA, and we can show our compliance as a percentage."

"Singularity Cloud's ability to create custom correlation searches and reduce noise is highly valuable."

"It is advantageous in terms of time-saving and cost reduction."

"The most valuable features of PingSafe are the asset inventory and issue indexing."

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security pros

"What I found most valuable in Amazon EKS is its maturity as a cloud computing technology."

"The stability of the solution is good."

"Initial setup is straightforward. It only takes 15 minutes to deploy."

"Amazon EKS is very scalable."

"Break down your application into small modules to improve resiliency"

"Amazon EKS provides good support."

"Overall Amazon EKS is a good solution in the industry. The solution can support multi tendencies, and network isolations are the key factors."

"AWS cloud services are flexible and have thorough documentation. AWS also has data centers all over the world."

More Amazon EKS pros

"The most valuable feature is the level of support that we get. Our solutions or customer success representative is very valuable. I see them as an extension of our security team."

"The log monitor is the most valuable feature."

"I have not seen any stability issues so far."

"Sysdig Secure has many strong foundational features like compliance and benchmark, security, network access management, and vulnerability management."

"From a container-based standpoint, it offers excellent scalability to its users...I would tell those planning to use the solution that, from a container standpoint, it's excellent."

"The proactiveness of the support has been fantastic. Every time we mention something in a meeting that we're trying to do, he proactively takes that as an investigation topic and looks into it. He'll provide the solution even though we might not have asked him to investigate it."

"The tool has the capability to conduct scans initially. It can perform scans on your virtual machines, physical machines, containers, and container images. A standout feature is its ability to scan offline container images stored in your container registry. Additionally, it can scan runtime images in your cluster or on your host machine. This allows for the detection of vulnerabilities in running containers, including loaded libraries. Notably, the tool can identify which library vulnerabilities are already present in your system. An added advantage is its capacity to take action beyond threat detection. It has the ability to block access and respond to encountered threats."

"I see Sysdig as the most comprehensive solution in comparison to its competitors."

More Sysdig Secure pros

Cons

"If something happens in our infrastructure, the alert appears on the dashboard, but I have to log in to the dashboard and refresh it. I would prefer it to provide better alerting and notifications so that I can resolve issues on priority."

"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in PingSafe."

"PingSafe filtering has some areas that cause problems, and to achieve single sign-on functionality, a break-glass feature, which is currently unavailable, is necessary."

"The could improve their mean time to detect."

"The area of improvement is the cost, which is high compared to other traditional endpoint protections."

"In some cases, the rules are strictly enforced but do not align with real-world use cases."

"I would prefer to see SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security develop into a single pane of glass for ASPM and CSPM."

"The cloud-based operations might pose challenges in areas with limited or unavailable internet connectivity."

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security cons

"I am not impressed with the tool's Amazon console. It also needs to add security features."

"The overall stability of the product should be improved to prevent any loss of data."

"Amazon EKS needs to improve customer operations and technical support."

"Sometimes, we face minor connectivity issues. However, it depends on the applications we are using."

"The product’s pricing needs improvement."

"The dashboard needs to be more user-friendly."

"There is room for improvement in the interface of Amazon EKS."

"Improvement is needed in reducing the complexity of using EKS."

More Amazon EKS cons

"Perhaps, it could support more custom implementations, as our company utilizes custom implementations rather than standard ones. Configuring it requires a deep understanding and adjustment to our specific needs, which took some time. Other than that, I'm unsure about potential improvements. We were considering the possibility of compartmentalizing their tools. Currently, in Sysdig Secure, they bundle multiple features, and we are unable to use them individually. For instance, if we only need compliance scanning, we have to deploy the entire secure package. This is because of the way their agent functions, but I can't delve into more details."

"Sysdig Secure needs to scale more for complete cloud-native coverage."

"The dashboard could be more simple and show the more important issues that are detected first. We'd like to be able to set it up so more important issues show up more prominently in the dashboard."

"Banks and financial institutions cannot use Sysdig Secure because it doesn't sell SaaS-hosted versions for under two hundred working nodes."

"Sysdig's biggest weakness is dashboarding and reporting. You have access to the data and can get everything you need, but we need the ability to summarize the information quickly in a format that senior leaders can understand. We report to the executive level and global board. I need to roll all that in-depth information into a quick summary, and their maturity level isn't there. I'm seeing that on the future road map, but it isn't there now."

"They should make it specific with a couple of features only."

"The solution needs to improve overall from a CSPM standpoint since they can't compete with Wiz or Orca."

"Reporting can definitely be better. Live dashboards should be configurable for a longer period of time rather than 30 days. Being able to go back in time to compare six months ago to today would be valuable."

More Sysdig Secure cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing was a little less than other providers."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's licensing and price were cheaper than the other solutions we looked at."

"PingSafe's primary advantage is its ability to consolidate multiple tools into a single user interface, but, beyond this convenience, it may not offer significant additional benefits to justify its price."

"Pricing is based on modules, which was ideal for us."

"I am not involved in the pricing, but it is cost-effective."

"PingSafe is not very expensive compared to Prisma Cloud, but it's also not that cheap. However, because of its features, it makes sense to us as a company. It's fairly priced."

"While SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers robust protection, its high cost may be prohibitive for small and medium-sized businesses."

"I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security pricing and cost advice

"Amazon EKS is not a cheap solution."

"The product is available at such a huge scale in the market since the resources that are offered under the tool are competitively priced and available at a much cheaper rate compared to other solutions."

"I would like a cheaper version of it."

"The solution is more expensive than other competitors and does not require a license."

"The solution's pricing is fair enough and a little less costly."

"The product pricing depends on the specific requirements."

"Amazon EKS has fair pricing. It's better in terms of pricing than other platforms."

"Cloud based pay-as-you-go pricing"

More Amazon EKS pricing and cost advice

"It is quite costly compared to other tools."

"I am always going to say that it could be a little bit cheaper. I do feel that it is a little bit on the expensive side."

"Sysdig is competitive. The quality matches the pricing. Obviously, everyone wants things to be cheaper, but if you're realistic, you acknowledge that quality service comes with a price. Sysdig is the gold standard for Kubernetes, and I wouldn't choose anything else. We live in Kubernetes. Everything is containerized, so that means a lot to us, and we're willing to make an investment."

"The solution's pricing depends on the agents...In short, the price depends on the environment of its user."

"In comparison to other cloud solutions, it's reasonably priced. However, when compared to in-house built open-source projects, it might be considered somewhat costly. The cost depends on whether someone sees the support provided by Sysdig as an advantage or if it's deemed unnecessary. Personally, I find the support to be excellent and consider it a good value."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Container Security solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

847,625 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

It is cost-effective compared to other solutions in the market.

See all answers

What needs improvement with PingSafe?

The documentation could be better. Besides improving the documentation, obtaining a professional or partner specializ...

See all answers

What do you like most about Amazon EKS?

The product's most valuable features are scalability, observability, and performance.

See all answers

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

The pricing structure is beneficial for large companies who pay for what they use, but it is not affordable for start...

See all answers

What needs improvement with Amazon EKS?

There is room for improvement in making Amazon EKS ( /products/amazon-eks-reviews ) less error-prone when writing on ...

See all answers

What do you like most about Sysdig Secure?

The proactiveness of the support has been fantastic. Every time we mention something in a meeting that we're trying t...

See all answers

What needs improvement with Sysdig Secure?

Sysdig Secure could improve in terms of scalability and expanding services to other areas like database monitoring an...

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Sysdig Secure?

Sysdig Secure ( /products/sysdig-secure-reviews ) is used for cloud-native infrastructure, application monitoring, an...

See all answers

Comparisons

Wiz vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 25% of the time

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 19% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 7% of the time

Lacework FortiCNAPP vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 2% of the time

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security Competitors

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform vs Amazon EKS

Compared 81% of the time

VMware Tanzu Platform vs Amazon EKS

Compared 9% of the time

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Amazon EKS

Compared 4% of the time

Rancher Labs vs Amazon EKS

Compared 2% of the time

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE vs Amazon EKS

Compared 2% of the time

More Amazon EKS Competitors

Wiz vs Sysdig Secure

Compared 29% of the time

Sysdig Falco vs Sysdig Secure

Compared 8% of the time

Trivy vs Sysdig Secure

Compared 7% of the time

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs Sysdig Secure

Compared 6% of the time

Veracode vs Sysdig Secure

Compared 3% of the time

More Sysdig Secure Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

March 2025

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security report

Download SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security product report

Buyer's Guide

Amazon EKS

April 2025

Download Amazon EKS product report

Buyer's Guide

Sysdig Secure

March 2025

Download Sysdig Secure product report

Also Known As

PingSafe

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

No data available

Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security protects cloud workloads, offering advanced threat detection and automated response. It integrates seamlessly with cloud environments and secures containerized applications and virtual machines against vulnerabilities.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is renowned for its efficiency in mitigating threats in real-time. The platform integrates effortlessly with existing cloud environments, ensuring robust cloud security management with minimal manual intervention. Securing containerized applications and virtual machines, it excels in threat intelligence and endpoint protection. However, improvements are needed in performance during high workload periods, and more integrations with third-party tools and better documentation would be beneficial. Users often find the installation process complex, support response times slow, and the dashboard's navigation unintuitive.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Real-time Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats as they occur.
Automated Response: Automatically responds to threats to minimize impact.
Ease of Deployment: Simple setup process with scalable options.
Machine Learning Insights: AI-driven insights enhance threat prevention.
Seamless Integration: Integrates with cloud environments for unified security management.

What are the primary benefits or ROI to expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Threat Mitigation: Improved security against real-time threats.
Reduced Manual Intervention: Automated processes save time and resources.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing security requirements.
Centralized Management: Manage security across platforms from a single console.
Advanced Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth analysis and protection.

In specific industries, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is implemented to safeguard critical data and infrastructure. Organizations in finance, healthcare, and technology depend on its real-time threat detection and automated response to protect sensitive information. Its ability to secure containerized applications and virtual machines is particularly valuable in dynamic environments where rapid scaling is necessary.

SentinelOne

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

In the cloud, every second counts. Attacks move at warp speed, and security teams must protect the business without slowing it down. Sysdig stops cloud attacks in real time, instantly detecting changes in risk with runtime insights, a unique AI architecture, and open source Falco. Sysdig delivers live visibility by correlating signals across cloud workloads, identities, and services to uncover hidden attack paths. By knowing what is running, teams can prioritize the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, permissions, and threats that matter most. From prevention to defense, Sysdig helps enterprises move faster and focus on what matters: innovation.

Sysdig. Secure Every Second.

Sysdig

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

GoDaddy, Pearson, FICO, Intuit, Verizon, Honeywell, Logicworks, RetailMeNot, LogMeIn, Conde Nast, mercari, Trainline, Axway

SAP Concur, Goldman Sachs, Worldpay, Experian, BigCommerce, Arkose Labs, Calendly, Noteable, Bloomreach. More here: https://sysdig.com/customers/

Buyer's Guide

Amazon EKS vs. Sysdig Secure

March 2025

Free Report: Amazon EKS vs. Sysdig Secure

Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon EKS vs. Sysdig Secure and other solutions. Updated: March 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

847,625 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Amazon EKS vs. Sysdig Secure report.

See our list of best Container Security vendors.

We monitor all Container Security reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.