Sysdig vs. Aqua SecuritySecure the cloud, not just the container
One free month of Sysdig for every month left on your Aqua contract, plus the cloud, identity, and repos Aqua doesn’t reach.
Why Sysdig Is a Better Choice Than
Aqua Security
Five questions to ask before you renew
Sysdig is a platform, not a portfolio. Detection, posture, vulnerabilities, and identity all read from the same runtime data, so your team works the short list of what’s actually running rather than the whole scan. Headless exposes it through MCP and APIs, so the answers land in the tools your team already uses.
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sysdig vs. aqua security
Why Sysdig is a better choice than
Aqua Security
What happens after the container?
One engine for cloud and workload. Command activity, cloud API calls, identity changes and repo events correlated on a single timeline.
No unified engine for cloud and workload threats. A multi-stage attack arrives as unrelated findings.
Who’s got the keys?
Identity is in the platform. Excessive and unused permissions ranked by what’s actually being used, tied to the workloads they reach.
No identity module in the product line-up. Over-permissioned accounts stay invisible.
It found it. Then what?
Blocking a container is the easy part. We revoke the permission and close the cloud exposure too, ranked by what’s actually running.
A ticket is not a remediation. Aqua blocks containers and functions. Cloud posture and identity findings only get reported.
Ever read the rules that protect you?
Read every rule. Change any of them. Falco is CNCF graduated, with multi-vendor governance and an independent security audit.
Their engine answers to them, not a community. Trivy and Tracee are widely adopted and entirely Aqua-governed. Neither is CNCF-hosted at any maturity level.
Does it work where you work?
The whole platform, programmable. Headless exposes CNAPP through MCP, APIs, skills and plugins, so investigation and remediation run in your tooling.
Two tools with an API. Not a platform. Trivy scanning and runtime incident response. Everything else lives in Aqua’s console.
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SYFE WITH SYSDIG
Initially, we viewed Sysdig mainly as a tool for container security. But we've realized it provides a holistic solution that covers our entire infrastructure – AWS, pipelines, Kubernetes, integrations, and code base.
Abhishek Garg, Director of Engineering, Syfe
Syfe secures its infrastructure with Sysdig across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and code base.
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10–15%
efficiency gain in the build pipeline
75%
less time spent on security and compliance management
90%
CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark score, up from 60%
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Free Sysdig for every month left on your Aqua Security contract.
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