Best Simplesense STIG Hardened AMIs Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

GovernSafe

Multi-cloud governance, compliance, and security platform with AI pentesting.

Metabadger

Metabadger automates the upgrade of AWS EC2 instances to use the more secure Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2) to prevent SSRF attacks and reduce attack surface.

aws-fast-fixes

A collection of automation scripts that quickly enable essential AWS security and compliance features that are not activated by default in AWS accounts.

Zeus AWS Auditing & Hardening Tool

Zeus is an AWS security auditing and hardening tool that evaluates cloud configurations against CIS benchmarks and can automatically apply recommended security settings.

Aikido Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

CSPM tool for AWS, Azure, and GCP with misconfig detection and compliance

Fluid Attacks CSPM

CSPM tool for continuous vulnerability scanning across cloud providers

Picus Cloud Security Validation

Cloud security validation platform for auditing & simulating attacks on AWS/Azure/GCP

Blast Platform

Preemptive cloud defense platform using native controls for multi-cloud

TrustOnCloud Comprehensive Threat Research

Cloud service threat research & control library for AWS, Azure, and GCP

Cloudlytics Cloud-Driven Security

Cloud security platform for compliance, event analytics, and asset monitoring

Plexicus Cloud Security Posture Management

CSPM platform for detecting misconfigurations & compliance gaps across clouds

Bitdefender GravityZone CSPM+

Cloud security posture mgmt with CIEM, compliance mapping & threat detection

Pentera Cloud Security

Automated security validation platform for cloud environments

Aqua Real-Time CSPM

Real-time CSPM for multi-cloud security risk identification and remediation

Cyscale Cloud Security Posture Management

CSPM tool for multi-cloud misconfiguration detection and compliance monitoring

Entersoft Managed Cloud Security

Managed cloud security services for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments

Sec1 CloudSight

AI-driven CSPM for multi-cloud risk detection and compliance monitoring

AlgoSec Cloud security posture management (CSPM)

CSPM solution for multi-cloud security monitoring and misconfiguration detection

Bridewell Cloud Security Posture Management

CSPM service for Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud environments

Cyble Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

CSPM solution for multi-cloud visibility, compliance, and misconfiguration mgmt

Centilytics Security and Health

Multi-cloud security audit and health monitoring platform with compliance mgmt

CoreStack Assessments

AI-driven multi-cloud assessment platform for security & compliance evaluation

Mitigant Platform

Cloud security platform for attack emulation, posture mgmt & compliance

Circumvent

Cloud security platform for misconfiguration remediation and exposure mgmt

CredShields Cloud Security Assessment

Cloud security audit service for AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure

Carbide Cloud Monitoring

Continuous cloud security monitoring & compliance for AWS and Azure.

Cavirin SaaS

Managed multi-cloud security posture mgmt SaaS for AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Cavirin Multi-Tenant Security Solution

Multi-tenant security & compliance mgmt platform for hybrid cloud.

Kloudle

Cloud security scanner that finds & fixes 383+ misconfigs across major cloud providers.

Vulneri CSPM

Agentless CSPM for AWS, Azure, GCP & OCI with continuous config monitoring.

ImmuniWeb Cloud Security Test

Free cloud storage security scanner for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments

Cloud Security Suite (cs-suite)

A command-line security auditing tool that performs Lynis-based security assessments across AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean cloud platforms.

CloudSploit by Aqua

CloudSploit by Aqua is an open-source multi-cloud security scanning tool that detects security risks and compliance issues across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and GitHub platforms.

SkyWrapper

SkyWrapper analyzes temporary token behaviors in AWS accounts to detect suspicious activities and generates Excel reports with findings summaries.

Dow Jones Hammer

A multi-account AWS security tool that identifies misconfigurations, provides real-time reporting, and performs automated remediation to establish secure cloud guardrails.

CloudMapper

CloudMapper is an AWS security analysis tool that audits configurations, identifies misconfigurations, analyzes IAM policies, finds unused resources, and provides network visualization capabilities.

AWS Scout2

AWS Scout2 is a security assessment tool that uses the AWS API to gather configuration data and automatically identify security risks in AWS environments.

Scout Suite

Scout Suite is an open source multi-cloud security auditing tool that gathers configuration data via cloud provider APIs to identify risks and provide visibility into cloud attack surfaces.

Cloudsplaining

An AWS IAM security assessment tool that identifies least privilege violations and generates risk-prioritized reports for IAM policy remediation.

Selefra

An open-source policy-as-code platform that analyzes multi-cloud and SaaS environments using SQL and YAML policies with GPT integration for security, cost, and architecture assessments.

Prowler

Prowler is an open source multi-cloud security assessment tool that performs audits, compliance checks, and security evaluations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.

rpCheckup

rpCheckup is an AWS resource policy security analysis tool that identifies public, external, intra-organizational, and private resource access patterns across AWS accounts.

AWS Key Usage Detector

A command-line tool that analyzes local CloudTrail files to detect off-instance AWS key usage patterns for security monitoring and forensic analysis.

Antiope AWS Inventory & Compliance Framework

An open-source framework that inventories and manages AWS resources across multiple accounts by collecting data via Cross Account Assume Roles and storing it in a centralized S3 bucket for analysis.

TrailScraper

TrailScraper is a command-line tool for extracting information from AWS CloudTrail logs and generating IAM policies based on actual API usage patterns.

Security Monkey

Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, and OpenStack environments for policy changes and insecure configurations, providing historical tracking and alerting capabilities through a centralized interface.