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Amazon Inspector vs JFrog Xray comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.5
Amazon Inspector offers reliable customer service, with varying response times based on subscription tier, ensuring user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.0
JFrog Xray's customer service receives mixed reviews, with varying satisfaction in support response times and account manager interactions.
I have not needed to use AWS support for Inspector, which indicates that the service is almost perfect.
When we need clarifications, we contact our account manager, and they arrange demos.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.6
Amazon Inspector needs better integration, expanded vulnerability coverage, real-time protection, automation, and improved guidance for comprehensive security.
Sentiment score
4.8
JFrog Xray needs improvements in documentation, UI, reporting, performance, vulnerability management, integration, APIs, and troubleshooting support.
Automation for scheduling 'turn on' and 'turn off' operations and better integration with CloudWatch for alarms could enhance the service's functionality.
X-ray needs improvement in supporting more than one database, as it currently only supports PostgreSQL.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Amazon Inspector offers scalable vulnerability monitoring with ECR integration, popular among security teams but sometimes limited for developers.
Sentiment score
7.4
JFrog Xray is viewed as scalable, accommodating growth plans, despite some PostgreSQL constraints, and rates scalability 7-8/10.
Scalability is not an issue with Amazon Inspector as it is scalable to the maximum, covering any business scale effectively.
 

Setup Cost

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Amazon Inspector offers a cost-effective, tiered pricing model with transparent, low-cost scans suitable for diverse organizational needs.
No sentiment score available
The pricing for Amazon Inspector is very fair, and I would rate it as two out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
The basic scanning capabilities come with Artifactory, however, curation requires additional licenses.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.5
Amazon Inspector is highly stable and reliable, receiving excellent user support and impacting business security positively.
Sentiment score
8.2
JFrog Xray is praised for stability and performance, though its provided PostgreSQL is considered unstable, needing enterprise support.
Amazon Inspector is highly stable, rated ten out of ten, and this stability impacts business security and administration positively.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
Amazon Inspector offers automated vulnerability detection, categorization, and Security Hub integration for enhanced AWS security assessment across resources.
Sentiment score
8.0
JFrog Xray efficiently blocks vulnerabilities with policy watches, integrates with Artifactory, and excels in scanning and license compliance.
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 most valuable features of JFrog Xray are its curation capabilities, its native integration with Artifactory, scanning for vulnerabilities, and license compliance features.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
IT Vendor Risk Management (9th)
JFrog Xray
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (19th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (6th), Software Supply Chain Security (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Inspector is 2.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JFrog Xray is 1.0%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Nikhil Sehgal - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Mokshi Pandita - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Inspector?
The pricing is very transparent and clear, so I don't have any challenges with it. It's good.
What needs improvement with Amazon Inspector?
There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected. Right now, it's not as comprehensive as some of the third-part...
What do you like most about JFrog Xray?
JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code.
What needs improvement with JFrog Xray?
There is a tool called DefectDojo for reporting. Reporting is crucial, but it is lacking in the current tool. Every organization seeks specific data points rather than general information. Therefor...
What is your primary use case for JFrog Xray?
We use this solution to identify vulnerabilities in the dependency file. We have the Artifactory package which integrates with Xray-like plugins. We can automatically plug this tool into Xray to co...
 

Also Known As

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JFrog Security Essentials
 

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Sample Customers

betterment, caplinked, flatiron, university of nutri dame
google, amazon, cisco, netflix, oracle, vmware, facebook
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