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AWSight: flat-rate AWS security checks mapped to CIS/NIST

AWSight: flat-rate AWS security checks mapped to CIS/NIST

by kevincloudsec·Mar 18, 2026·1 point·3 comments

AI Analysis

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Managed Prowler alternative with flat-rate pricing instead of AWS Security Hub's per-resource fees.

Strengths
  • Flat-rate pricing model avoids the exploding costs of AWS Security Hub as resources scale.
  • Grafana dashboards use existing engineer familiarity rather than forcing a new UI.
Weaknesses
  • Read-only IAM role setup still requires security trust that some enterprises hesitate to grant.
  • Competing against native AWS tools which integrate deeper into remediation workflows.
Category
Target Audience

SMBs, CTOs, DevOps engineers managing AWS

Similar To

Prowler · AWS Security Hub

Post Description

I spent 15 years in cybersecurity and kept seeing small teams struggle with the cost and maintenance of AWS security tooling. If you turn on AWS Security Hub and AWS Config to track CIS benchmarks or SOC 2 controls, the per-rule and per-resource pricing adds up quickly as accounts grow.

I built AWSight as a simpler option. It runs a few hundred security checks against your AWS accounts daily and maps findings to CIS, NIST, and PCI DSS controls. It connects through a read-only cross-account IAM role and never writes to your environment.

Results show up in Grafana dashboards with remediation steps for each finding. I chose Grafana because most engineers already know how to use it.

If you already run Prowler yourself, AWSight is basically that idea but managed: scheduled scans, historical tracking, and compliance mapping without running the infrastructure.

Pricing is flat-rate starting at $249/month per account, regardless of resource count.

Demo dashboards with sample data (no signup): https://awsight.com/demo.html

(Grafana panels can take a few moments to load on first visit.)

I'm a solo founder building this. Happy to talk architecture, specific checks, or why AWS Config billing is so difficult to predict.

https://awsight.com

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