

Last year at Ignite, we shared our vision to create the most complete approach for securing your digital estate and integrating XDR technologies under the Microsoft Defender brand. Native support for AWS - secure your multicloud environments centrally Unifying Azure Security Center and Azure Defender under the new name Microsoft Defender for Cloud now better reflects the integrated capabilities of our security offering that help you secure any cloud platform. Today, we’re excited to announce native CSPM support and threat protection for compute workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We implemented an agentless approach to connect AWS environments, that leverages the AWS API and has no dependencies on cloud vendor offerings such as AWS Security Hub.

The onboarding experience is designed to work easily at scale, by simply connecting your AWS master account, which automatically onboards existing and future accounts. To give you a central view across the security state of your multi-cloud environments, AWS security recommendations are now integrated in the Defender for Cloud portal, alongside Azure recommendations. We implemented more than 160 out-of-the-box recommendations across IaaS and PaaS services and three regulatory standards including CIS, PCI, and AWS foundational security best practices, to help strengthen your AWS security posture.

Finally, security teams can also create their own recommendations and standards to meet internal requirements by either customizing existing templates or building entirely new ones.
