AWS Security Hub
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What is AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture and findings management service for AWS environments. It aggregates, normalizes, and prioritizes security findings from AWS services and supported third-party tools, and evaluates resources against security standards to support continuous monitoring. Security and cloud operations teams use it to centralize visibility, triage issues, and route findings to ticketing or incident workflows. It is designed to work natively with AWS accounts, regions, and AWS security services.
Centralized findings aggregation
Security Hub consolidates findings from multiple AWS security services and integrated partner products into a single view. It applies a common finding format (ASFF) to normalize data for triage and reporting. This reduces the need to pivot across separate consoles to understand current security issues. It also supports cross-account aggregation patterns commonly used in multi-account AWS organizations.
Built-in standards assessments
The service continuously evaluates AWS resources against supported security standards and controls, producing control-level pass/fail results and associated findings. This helps teams track posture over time and focus remediation on specific failed controls. Standards-based outputs can support internal compliance monitoring and audit preparation. The control mapping is integrated into the same findings workflow used for other detections.
Native AWS workflow integration
Security Hub integrates with AWS-native eventing and automation services to route and respond to findings. Teams can forward findings to ticketing systems, SIEM/SOAR tools, or custom pipelines via supported integrations. It aligns with AWS identity and access management patterns for delegated administration and multi-account governance. This can simplify operationalization for organizations already standardized on AWS services.
AWS-centric scope
Security Hub primarily addresses security posture and findings within AWS accounts and regions. Organizations with significant workloads in other clouds or on-premises environments typically need additional tools or separate processes for unified coverage. Third-party integrations can extend inputs, but the service remains centered on AWS resource models and controls. This can complicate enterprise-wide reporting across heterogeneous environments.
Not a full GRC platform
While it provides standards checks and control results, Security Hub does not replace governance, risk, and compliance workflows such as evidence collection, policy management, vendor risk, or audit project management. Teams pursuing formal certifications often need complementary systems for control ownership, approvals, and auditor-ready evidence packages. Reporting is oriented toward security findings and control status rather than end-to-end compliance operations. This limits its use as a standalone compliance management solution.
Tuning and noise management
Aggregating findings from many sources can create high alert volume without careful configuration. Teams often need to tune integrations, suppression rules, and automation to reduce duplicates and prioritize actionable issues. Misconfiguration across accounts or regions can also lead to gaps in coverage or inconsistent results. Ongoing operational effort is typically required to keep signal quality high.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Hub essentials plan | $3.75 per resource unit per month (billed pro‑rata) | Consolidated per‑resource pricing anchored on EC2 (1 EC2 = 1 resource unit). Lambda = 1/12 unit, ECR images = 1/18 unit, IAM users/roles = 1/125 unit. Includes risk & exposure analytics, vulnerability management (Amazon Inspector), CSPM checks, workflow automation, and unlimited scans. Billing is based on average monitored resources per month. See examples on the AWS pricing page. |
| Security Hub threat analytics plan (add‑on, powered by Amazon GuardDuty) | CloudTrail management events: $4.00 per 1,000,000 events; Data/VPC/DNS/other logs: $0.55 per GB (first 1,000 GB), $0.25 per GB (next 9,000 GB), $0.10 per GB (over) | Requires essentials plan. Adds GuardDuty‑powered threat detection (CloudTrail, VPC/DNS logs, S3, EKS, Lambda). Add‑on retains per‑event/GB metering; examples available on pricing page. Threat analytics add‑on is not included in the Security Hub 30‑day free trial. |
| AWS Lambda code scanning (add‑on, powered by Amazon Inspector) | Amazon Inspector Lambda pricing: $0.30 per Lambda function per month for standard scanning; code scanning (additional) $0.60 per function (total $0.90 per function/month when both applied) — pricing shown on Amazon Inspector page | Requires essentials plan; actual Inspector charges (EC2, ECR, Lambda, code repo scans) continue to apply as specified by Amazon Inspector pricing. Example calculations and free trial details available on the Amazon Inspector pricing page. |
| Security Hub CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) | Usage‑based: Security checks and finding ingestion and automation rule evaluations. Example rates shown: security checks $0.0010 per check (first 100,000 checks tier), $0.0008 per check (next 400,000 tier); finding ingestions: first 10,000 events free, then $0.00003 per event (over 10,000); automation rules: first 1,000,000 evals free, then $0.10 per 1M eval (with lower tiers at scale) | CSPM charges by three dimensions (security checks, finding ingestions, automation rule evaluations). CSPM offers a perpetual free tier of 10,000 finding ingestions per account per Region per month and tiered/volume pricing for checks and rule evaluations. |
Seller details
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
2006
Subsidiary
https://aws.amazon.com/
https://x.com/awscloud
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services/
