Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs Wiz comparison

Microsoft and Wiz are both solutions in the Container Security category. Microsoft is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.3, while Wiz is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0. Microsoft holds a 0.6% mindshare in Container Security, compared to Wiz’s 20.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Wiz users who would recommend it.

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Wiz and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) are leading solutions in cloud-native security and container orchestration, respectively. User reviews indicate that while Wiz has an edge in ease of setup and overall user experience, AKS stands out with its comprehensive features and robust support, making it a preferred choice for users valuing extensive capabilities.

Features: Wiz users appreciate its intuitive threat detection and compliance management functionalities. Additionally, Wiz offers automated vulnerability assessment making it a go-to for security-centric features. Conversely, AKS is favored for its scalability, advanced orchestration capabilities, and diverse integration options, marking it a comprehensive solution for container orchestration.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Wiz could benefit from enhanced multi-cloud support, deeper integrations with other security tools, and a more extensive analytics dashboard. AKS users seek improved documentation, more straightforward scalability options, and optimized resource management. The primary distinction is Wiz's need to broaden its integration scope, contrasted with AKS's focus on user assistance and scalability refinement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Wiz users highlight its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer support. In contrast, AKS users find its deployment more complex but value the comprehensive support provided. Therefore, Wiz is preferred for deployment ease, whereas AKS stands out in support comprehensiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Wiz offers competitive setup costs and a quick return on investment, valued by cost-conscious users. In contrast, AKS, despite higher setup costs, delivers significant ROI due to its extensive feature set and long-term value proposition.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Wiz Report (Updated: December 2024).

Buyer's Guide

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Wiz

December 2024

Download the complete report

Helped 824,053 peers since 2012

Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is 0.6%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wiz is 20.8%, up from 15.0% 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

Luis_Navarrete

Cloud Engineer at Globant

Decreases administrative burdens and costs, has good diagnostic tools, and is easy to deploy

The solution's logs have room for improvement. I believe that consolidating the logs would help to improve the recall of information from them. With so many logs and such a large amount of data, it would be much easier to obtain relevant information if the logs were merged into a single log. I would like to have an easier migration from on-prem to the cloud Azure Kubernetes Service. I can complete the task quickly, but I'm not sure many others can accomplish it at the same time or with the same amount of effort, since it may be a bit challenging, to begin with, if we don't have a full understanding of the concepts. Therefore, it would be beneficial if the service provides a resource to make the integration process simpler. I believe Azure provides a great service, and I'm working with the solution on a daily basis. However, Azure Kubernetes Service can be improved to make it easier to manage. The user interface can be a bit overwhelming, especially for those who are unfamiliar with the concepts. I suggest having a wizard that simplifies integration and creation of a new Kubernetes in the cloud.

Read full review

Wellington Franham

CEO at Century Data

Enhanced security profiling and predictive analysis in diverse industries

We are a partner and develop Wiz opportunities here in Brazil and Latin America. We already have some customers using Wiz as a DSPM platform. We use it in various industries, like retail, where it is used for security profiling and predictive analysis to identify risks. There is also a global…

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

"PingSafe offers an intuitive user interface that lets us navigate quickly and easily."

"We've seen a reduction in resources devoted to vulnerability monitoring. Before PingSafe we spent a lot of time monitoring and fixing these issues. PingSafe enabled us to divert more resources to the production environment."

"Atlas security graph is pretty cool. It maps out relationships between components on AWS, like load balancers and servers. This helps visualize potential attack paths and even suggests attack paths a malicious actor might take."

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

"It integrates very well. We sell different products from different vendors. We know that the SentinelOne Singularity platform can be integrated with several different solutions from different vendors."

"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."

"Support has been very helpful and provides regular feedback and help whenever needed. They've been very useful."

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

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security pros

"I have enjoyed working with all the features."

"The most valuable features of AKS are the full array of capabilities and robust security."

"It employs high availability."

"The integration with Azure's security capabilities is very good. The Azure managed identity and integration with the Azure application gateway for App Ingress are valuable features. Additionally, it is a very stable tool."

"I found the Helm deployment feature of the solution valuable."

"Compliance is easy right out-of-the-box with integration to Azure Security, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Policies."

"The most valuable feature is the autoscaling and self-healing."

"The product has built-in functionality that checks whether the service is available or not. In case the service is down, the tool will create a new instance by default. Hence, the web API will be always up irrespective of the server or the situation."

More Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) pros

"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."

"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."

"The tool is very powerful in nature."

"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."

"Wiz is a very powerful product technologically."

"The granularity of visibility that the platform provides is the most valuable aspect."

"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."

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

More Wiz pros

Cons

"There should be more documentation about the product."

"With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case."

"A two-month grace period for extended searches would be a valuable improvement."

"SentinelOne currently lacks a break glass account feature, which is critical for implementing Single Sign-On."

"PingSafe can be improved by developing a comprehensive set of features that allow for automated workflows."

"There is room for improvement in the current active licensing model for PingSafe."

"If I had to pick a complaint, it would be the way the hosts are listed in the tool. You have different columns separated by endpoint name, Cloud Account, and Cloud Instances ID. I wish there was something where we could change the endpoint name and not use just the IP address. We would like to have custom names or our own names for the instances. If I had a complaint, that would be it, but so far, it meets all the needs that we have."

"The documentation that I use for the initial setup can be more detailed or written in a more user-friendly language to avoid troubles."

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security cons

"AKS could enhance its functionality by introducing a blueprint feature that streamlines and expedites the process. With a blueprint, users can leverage pre-defined configurations, including some common survey elements, reducing the need for extensive customization and allowing us to focus on our core business activities. Additionally, if the blueprint covers security aspects, it would be greatly beneficial, as it eliminates the need for us to build security expertise from scratch. Currently, we encounter challenges during cloud onboarding, security implementation, and adapting to Kubernetes. Although Microsoft may not consider these as their direct responsibility, providing a blueprint similar to what they offer to developers would be highly advantageous."

"I would like to see the stability get more synchronized."

"One area that could be improved is the Azure CLI. It would be beneficial if they could abstract some of the complexities related to deployment scripts and make them a part of Azure CLI."

"Its integration functions could be enhanced."

"Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is more flexible but more complex to maintain."

"There are some limitations with the tutor version, particularly in terms of using a lot of free audio. The private level also has restrictions, limiting the number of audio files you can access to just 50. If you want more, you need to contact support."

"I would like to see Azure implement something like the K9 terminal for interacting with Kubernetes clusters. It's a user-friendly CLI interface."

"Configuration management and troubleshooting performance issues are difficult to solve and could be made easier."

More Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cons

"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."

"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."

"We noticed some capabilities that were lacking, specifically ignoring some false-positive Issue findings. The good news - with the latest update, this has been resolved."

"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."

"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."

"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."

"The reporting should be improved because until a few months ago, the reports were only in CSV format, which made it difficult to clean up. Wiz tried to improve the reporting process, but it's not as valuable as Tenable."

More Wiz cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PingSafe falls within the typical price range for cloud security platforms."

"Its pricing is constant. It has been constant over the previous year, so I am happy with it. However, price distribution can be better explained. That is the only area I am worried about. Otherwise, the pricing is very reasonable."

"The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"

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

"It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."

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

"I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."

"PingSafe is fairly priced."

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security pricing and cost advice

"Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is an expensive solution"

"The solution does not cost much."

"The product follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model which is good for small enterprises. You need to pay only for the services that you use."

"The product is expensive in terms of scalability."

"The pricing of the solution is same as Azure Stack."

"The control plane is free and we only pay for the usage and time."

"The price of AKS is expensive. We pay approximately $10,000 monthly."

"We could spend as little as $25 or $30 a month on Kubernetes Services, compared to the typical $100 a month expenditure for a virtual machine."

More Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) pricing and cost advice

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

More Wiz pricing and cost advice

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

824,053 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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?

The pricing is somewhat high compared to other market tools. This cost can be particularly prohibitive for small busi...

See all answers

What needs improvement with PingSafe?

To enhance the notification system's efficiency, resolved issues should be promptly removed from the portal. Currentl...

See all answers

What do you like most about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

The platform's high scalability is one of its biggest advantages.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

No improvements needed as Azure Kubernetes Service follows the Kubernetes standards very well and meets the required ...

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

I am using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for enterprise applications. These applications are divided into microservi...

See all answers

What do you like most about Wiz?

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

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wiz?

This feedback is not based on much experience yet, as we have only conducted POV or POC.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Wiz?

I have not measured certain abilities on a scale yet. The ultimate value depends on the requirements of your organiza...

See all answers

Comparisons

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 23% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 8% of the time

Orca Security vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 6% of the time

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 5% of the time

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 3% of the time

More SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security Competitors

Red Hat OpenShift vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Compared 80% of the time

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Compared 9% of the time

SUSE Rancher vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Compared 3% of the time

Tenable.io Container Security vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Compared 2% of the time

Zscaler Workload Communications vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Compared 1% of the time

More Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Competitors

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs Wiz

Compared 16% of the time

Orca Security vs Wiz

Compared 9% of the time

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Wiz

Compared 8% of the time

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs Wiz

Compared 5% of the time

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs Wiz

Compared 2% of the time

More Wiz Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

October 2024

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security report

Download SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security product report

Buyer's Guide

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

December 2024

Download Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) product report

Buyer's Guide

Wiz

October 2024

Download Wiz product report

Also Known As

PingSafe

No data available

Learn More

SentinelOne

Microsoft

Wiz

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.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Microsoft Azure. It simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Kubernetes. With AKS, developers can focus on building applications while Azure takes care of the underlying infrastructure. It offers features like automatic scaling, monitoring, and security, ensuring high availability and reliability. AKS integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, enabling easy integration with existing workflows. It also provides a flexible and open-source environment, allowing developers to use their preferred tools and frameworks. With AKS, organizations can accelerate their application development and deployment processes, while reducing operational overheads.

Wiz is a highly efficient solution for data security posture management (DSPM), with a 100% API-based approach that provides quick connectivity and comprehensive scans of platform configurations and workloads. The solution allows companies to automatically correlate sensitive data with relevant cloud context, such as public exposure, user identities, entitlements, and vulnerabilities.This integration enables them to understand data accessibility, configuration, usage, and movement within their internal environments.

Wiz's Security Graph delivers automated alerts whenever risks emerge, allowing teams to prioritize and address the most critical issues before they escalate into breaches. Furthermore, Wiz ensures rapid and agentless visibility into critical data across various repositories, enabling organizations to easily determine the location of their data assets.

Wiz Features

Wiz provides various features in the following categories:

Agentless Scanning: The solution can scan every layer of a cloud environment without requiring agents, managing the entire process and providing comprehensive visibility.
Workflow Integration: Users can create customized workflows within Wiz to identify and assign actions based on urgency, integrating them with ticketing systems for quick and efficient remediation.
Vulnerability Management: Wiz's vulnerability management modules provide detailed analytics and visibility across cloud systems, streamlining the manual process of vulnerability discovery. The automated attack path analysis helps identify risks and trace potential points of exposure, allowing users to understand and mitigate them effectively and proactively.
CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management): Wiz's CSPM module offers instant visibility into high-level risks to an enterprise’s cloud environment, covering all accounts without the need for agents.
Out-of-the-Box Reporting and Custom Queries: The service supports comprehensive reporting with asset context, allowing users to perform complex custom queries on the solution’s user-friendly interface.
Automation Roles and Dashboards: The solution facilitates automation by providing essential roles and dedicated dashboards that enable teams to understand security information quickly, even those with limited expertise.
Contextual Risk Evaluation: The service contextualizes the various components contributing to an issue, providing a risk evaluation framework that helps prioritize remediation efforts.
Security Graph and Visibility: Wiz's security graph offers visibility across the entire organization, even with multiple accounts, enabling users to understand their environment and assets effectively.

The Benefits of Wiz

Wiz offers the following benefits:

Comprehensive agentless scanning
Effective identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities
Streamlined vulnerability management
Robust reporting capabilities and customizable queries
Enhanced automation and role-based access control
Prioritized risk evaluation for efficient remediation
Security posture across multiple accounts

Reviews from Real Users

Kamran Siddique, VP Information Security at boxed.com, remarks his company has seen a ROI while using Wiz, as it simplifies the process by integrating multiple useful tools into one solution.

According to a Senior Security Architect at Deliveroo, Wiz has given their company a fresh approach to vulnerability management, as Wiz's native integrations are extremely useful and paramount to the operational success of their platform.

Get a demo | Wiz

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

Wiz is the fastest growing software company ever - $100M ARR in 18 months: Wiz becomes the fastest-growing software company ever | Wiz Blog Discover why companies, including Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Fox, and Bridgewater choose Wiz as their cloud security partner. Read their success stories here: Customers | Wiz

Buyer's Guide

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Wiz

December 2024

Free Report: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Wiz

Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Wiz and other solutions. Updated: December 2024.

DOWNLOAD NOW

824,053 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. Wiz 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.