Upwind for AWS Security Hub Extended

My main use case for Upwind is vulnerability management program automation, CSPM, Cloud Security Posture Management, and overall monitoring of security vulnerabilities across the company. For example, I have my cloud provider connected to Upwind, and it scans every resource existing inside and alerts me if there is any vulnerability, such as an instance with port 22 open to the world.

Upwind has positively impacted my organization by reducing time to action and time to response by half. I save time because any change that is non-compliant is automatically triggered in the form of an alert, so I do not have to wait for any other scans from any other tools. Instead of having many alerts at the beginning of the day, I have an alert at the moment it happens.

The best features Upwind offers are the ability to see everything globally across many different cloud accounts, which I appreciate the most, and its ability to reduce noise is also very helpful.

Upwind helps reduce noise for me by not only firing findings but also using context to ensure that those findings are truly as critical as they claim to be. For example, a critical finding on a resource that does not have internet reachability is not as critical, but another one with high criticality that is exposed to the internet may have a raised criticality.

The accuracy and reliability of Upwind's AI output are really useful. It provides great summaries upon findings, is able to generate full investigations upon findings as well, and the ability to talk to the AI myself to get any more context or any other summaries or related information from a finding is really useful.

Upwind can be improved because its UI is a bit difficult to navigate. I find myself getting lost many times, not being able to find the option, and sometimes completely forgetting where some of the functionality is.

I have been using Upwind for six months.

Upwind is stable.

The scalability of Upwind is great so far.

The customer support is amazing, with a sub-two-minute response time. I rate the customer support a ten on a scale of one to ten.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was really easy to figure out. I received a request from the support team or the sales team asking for what my needs were, and right from that email, I automatically received a quote.

I have seen a return on investment because I am basically saving costs on some monitoring tools offered on AWS, since they are now taken care of by Upwind. The amount of people needed to check all of the alerts has drastically lowered, and now I can take care of it myself. The response times are two times faster.

My advice to others looking into using Upwind is that it is a great tool to use and can take care of many things across many areas of security, and it will save you a lot of headaches. I gave this review a rating of nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for Upwind is cloud security and workload protection. I primarily use it to gain visibility into cloud assets, vulnerabilities, and runtime risks, and I mainly use it to prioritize the risks that actually matter and help the team focus remediation efforts instead of treating every finding equally.

A specific example would be using Upwind to investigate a vulnerable cloud workload and determine if it was actually exposed or active at runtime. The runtime context helped us prioritize the issue based on real traffic and workload behavior instead of treating every vulnerability as equally urgent.

I appreciate runtime context, which helps connect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations with actual workload behavior and network relationships, making it easier to prioritize remediation based on real exposure rather than simply working through a long list of security findings.

The best features that stand out to me are contextual vulnerability prioritization, cloud workload visibility, and runtime security. I especially value how Upwind connects vulnerabilities with actual runtime behavior, which helps focus on exploitable risk rather than working through a long list of findings.

It has helped us focus on actual exploitable risk instead of treating every vulnerability equally. By considering runtime activity, exposure, reachability, and sensitive data context, the team can prioritize remediation much faster and reduce unnecessary alert noise.

I also value the runtime visibility and attack path context because it connects security findings with network behavior and actual workload. This makes investigations more actionable and helps the team move from simply detecting issues to understanding their real impact.

The biggest positive impact has been the prioritization of cloud security risk and improved visibility. Instead of chasing every vulnerability, we can focus on issues that are actually exposed or active at runtime, which makes the security team more efficient and remediation more targeted.

I would appreciate more customizable dashboards and reporting for different teams, such as security operations, engineering, and leadership. The runtime context is excellent, but tailoring those views for each audience would make day-to-day use even smoother.

I would appreciate more flexibility in the filtering capabilities and reporting for different security teams. I would also appreciate customizing dashboards. As environments grow larger, making it easier to surface role-specific risk and trends would make an already strong platform even more efficient.

I have been using Upwind for around a year, approximately ten months.

Upwind's AI governance and security are strong because they combine AI posture controls with real-time runtime visibility, which gives the security team better context around data flows, identities, AI workloads, and potential threats rather than relying on static configuration checks.

I have found the AI-related security insights to be generally accurate and useful, especially when they are backed by runtime telemetry and actual workload behavior. I also appreciate that the platform provides context and evidence around findings, which makes it easier to validate whether an alert is genuinely actionable.

I would recommend Upwind to teams that need strong cloud visibility with runtime context rather than relying on static vulnerability scans. I would start with a focused set of cloud workloads, validate the risk prioritization, and then expand it across the environment as the team becomes comfortable with the workflows.

Overall, my experience is very positive with Upwind. The combination of runtime visibility, security insights, and contextual risk prioritization makes it much easier to focus on the risks that actually matter. I gave this review a rating of ten out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We use Upwind for runtime security in our cloud environments. We also use Upwind for cloud security posture management, API security, and cloud vulnerability management.

Upwind has great runtime detection and response capabilities for our cloud workloads. It provides great context for vulnerability management, allowing us to see what our most important vulnerabilities are. Upwind gives us insight into API security threats and helps us identify misconfigurations in our cloud environments to align with security frameworks like CIS or NIST. With Upwind, we have greatly increased our cloud security posture. Our compliance rates have improved significantly, and they have helped us automate vulnerability management and gain insights into API endpoint security.

Upwind just needs to continue on the path they are on. They have some really great ideas and need to keep refining their different tool sets and add to their reporting and automation. However, they have a strong platform as it is.

I started using Upwind a couple of years ago.

It was very easy for us to deploy. Their deployment is much more modern and automated than others that we have seen.

Absolutely, Upwind is stable.

Upwind scales great for us. It is deployed in such a way that whenever we build something new, it automatically deploys to those new resources, and we really don't have to touch it much. So, it scales really well.

Customer support is fantastic. We have a very good relationship with the Upwind team. They are always timely in their response and provide direct integration with us via Slack. Whenever we have issues, they are right there to support us.

Positive

Yes, we did. We used another cloud security provider. We switched because they were a more legacy provider and their integrations were not as modern or capable. Their runtime alerting did not surface the same amount of detail or events, and we felt Upwind was cloud-first, which aligns with our company's cloud-first direction.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. Pretty much everything was done via infrastructure as code, using either Terraform or CloudFormation. It was as easy as applying those templates to our environment.

Upwind has definitely saved us a lot of time in reviewing the findings with the posture findings. It also saved us time in vulnerability management by significantly lowering the number of vulnerabilities we need to focus on, reducing the time required to address critical issues.

Pricing, setup costs, and licensing were very fair.

I would just say it's a great product. They have greatly improved our visibility. They are great to work with. They are a great overall cloud security platform and they continue innovating and adding new features. I would rate the overall solution a 10 out of 10.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)