Amazon Inspector vs JFrog Xray comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and JFrog are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.0, while JFrog is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.8% mindshare in VM, compared to JFrog’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of JFrog users who would recommend it.

Amazon Inspector

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

JFrog Xray and Amazon Inspector compete in the security and compliance solutions category. JFrog Xray often has an advantage in pricing and customer support, whereas Amazon Inspector is preferred for its more advanced features despite a higher cost.

Features: JFrog Xray provides in-depth security scanning for dependencies, visibility into open-source vulnerabilities, and license compliance management. It is well-suited for identifying vulnerabilities in software components. Amazon Inspector focuses on automated security assessments, excels at identifying vulnerabilities and deviations from best practices, and integrates seamlessly with AWS infrastructure.

Room for Improvement: JFrog Xray could benefit from enhanced user interface improvements, expanded documentation, and increased automation capabilities. Amazon Inspector could improve by offering better multi-cloud environment support, more extensive integration options outside AWS, and providing more detailed reporting and analytics tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: JFrog Xray offers flexible deployment options, being available both on-premises and in the cloud, and is known for its responsive customer service. Amazon Inspector, integrated within AWS, simplifies deployment for applications already running on AWS, although its customer service responsiveness could be improved for users requiring more personalized support.

Pricing and ROI: JFrog Xray generally provides competitive pricing with commendable ROI considering its comprehensive vulnerability management capabilities. Amazon Inspector is priced higher, delivering substantial ROI by enhancing AWS security posture, which is valuable for enterprises deeply invested in AWS environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

25th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Vendor Risk Management (7th)

JFrog Xray

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Security (20th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (6th), Software Supply Chain Security (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Inspector is 2.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JFrog Xray is 1.1%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management

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Nikhil Sehgal

Lead Solution Advisor (Cyber Security) at Deloitte

Primarily focuses on security of EC2 instances, provides point-in-time assessments rather than real time protection but provides automated vulnerability detection

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. So other is dependency on agents, like, Inspector relies on agents installed on instances for deeper assessment. So managing these agents can be additional overhead. So these kinds of things. It does not even provide real-time protection. So, Inspector provides point-in-time assessment rather than continuous monitoring. So these are all cons. When it comes to false positives, it is there for most security tools as of now. I would not consider false positives a major concern. So, these are the major concerns that I found: dependency on agents, limited scope, and no real-time protection.

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Mokshi Pandita

DevOps Engineer at Rambøll Danmark A/S

An intelligent solution that prioritizes which vulnerability to target first in your project

We could create any number of repositories, but we can create only thirty projects with JFrog Xray. If I want things to work, it has to be one project and multiple repositories that belong to different real projects. So I have a limitation of thirty projects, despite being a premium customer. JFrog Xray does not have a dashboard. Although I am able to generate reports, there is no proper dashboard where I can see the total number of vulnerabilities, the total number of license issues, and how many vulnerabilities are fixed. Second, I found the shift left approach missing with JFrog Xray. JFrog Xray has integration with IDEs, but it does not tell you about the vulnerabilities until the artifact is created. However, Snyk could directly integrate with your repository and would not allow you to build unless you fix the problem.

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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

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

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

"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."

"The automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable."

"The vulnerability discovery is valuable, and they also rank those vulnerabilities for you. So, you could rapidly attack some of the higher, severe vulnerabilities as they pop up, if they do pop up."

"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."

"The most valuable features of JFrog Xray are its curation capabilities, its native integration with Artifactory, scanning for vulnerabilities, and license compliance features."

"The most valuable feature of JFrog Xray is the display of the entire internal dependencies hierarchy."

"The most valuable features of JFrog Xray are its curation capabilities, its native integration with Artifactory, scanning for vulnerabilities, and license compliance features."

"I would say that this solution has helped our organization by allowing us to automate a lot of the processes."

"JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"JFrog Xray's reporting feature has a lot of options in it, including scanning."

"If multiple dependencies and vulnerabilities are found in a project, JFrog Xray is intelligent enough to tell you which vulnerability to target first."

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Cons

"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."

"There isn't too much to improve right now. Scanning on demand or as a part of the pipeline versus a post pipeline solution would be good, but it is not a deal breaker by any means."

"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."

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

"One area for improvement in Amazon Inspector is the automation aspect."

"X-ray needs improvement in supporting more than one database, as it currently only supports PostgreSQL."

"Reporting is crucial, but it is lacking in the current tool. Every organization seeks specific data points rather than general information. Therefore, we require customized reports from the Xray tool."

"JFrog Xray's documentation and error logging could be improved."

"Since we have been using the solution via APIs, there are some limitations in the APIs."

"I think that the user interface should be expanded to provide customers with a better dashboard for reviewing their feedback regarding their images and the vulnerabilities that are associated with the images."

"Lacks deeper reporting, the ability to compare things."

"The out-of-the-box PostgreSQL provided is not stable, which is why we are considering enterprise support."

"JFrog Xray does not have a dashboard."

More JFrog Xray cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Inspector?

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 integ...

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

The pricing for Amazon Inspector is very fair, and I would rate it as two out of ten, with ten being the most expensive. It's on the cheaper side.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Inspector?

One area for improvement in Amazon Inspector is the automation aspect. Automation for scheduling 'turn on' and 'turn off' operations and better integration with CloudWatch for alarms could enhance ...

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What do you like most about JFrog Xray?

JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code.

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What needs improvement with JFrog Xray?

X-ray needs improvement in supporting more than one database, as it currently only supports PostgreSQL. More support during troubleshooting sessions would also be beneficial.

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What is your primary use case for JFrog Xray?

Our primary use case for X-ray includes multiple activities such as security and vulnerability scanning. We already use Black Duck for these purposes, and we are evaluating how JFrog Xray can offer...

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Overview

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. These findings can be reviewed directly or as part of detailed assessment reports which are available via the Amazon Inspector console or API.

Amazon Inspector security assessments help you check for unintended network accessibility of your Amazon EC2 instances and for vulnerabilities on those EC2 instances. Amazon Inspector assessments are offered to you as pre-defined rules packages mapped to common security best practices and vulnerability definitions. Examples of built-in rules include checking for access to your EC2 instances from the internet, remote root login being enabled, or vulnerable software versions installed. These rules are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.

JFrog is on a mission to enable continuous updates through Liquid Software, empowering developers to code high-quality applications that securely flow to end-users with zero downtime. The world’s top brands such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, VMware, and Spotify are among the 4500 companies that already depend on JFrog to manage binaries for their mission-critical applications. JFrog is a privately-held, global company, and is a proud sponsor of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation [CNCF].

If you are a team player and you care and you play to WIN, we have just the job you're looking for.

As we say at JFrog: "Once You Leap Forward You Won't Go Back!"

Sample Customers

betterment, caplinked, flatiron, university of nutri dame

google, amazon, cisco, netflix, oracle, vmware, facebook

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