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Upwind is the next-generation cloud security platform, focusing on runtime context to reveal the most critical risks and important insights from your cloud infrastructure.
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Run faster and more securely with Upwind's next-generation cloud security platform. Combine the power of cloud security posture with runtime context and realtime protection, enabling your security team to prioritize accurately and respond fast to your most critical risks.
Highlights
- Upwind is the next-generation cloud security platform that helps you simplify and solve cloud security's biggest challenges.
- Upwind consolidates tools and brings security, DevOps and engineering teams together with its comprehensive CNAPP.
- Upwind brings together the best of all worlds to fit your unique cloud environment - so you can start fast and scale even faster.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Upwind Managed Detection & Response | Upwind Managed Detection & Response 24/7 Service | $6,000.00 |
Upwind Cloud Security Platform | Upwind Cloud Security Platform | $30,000.00 |
Upwind Cloud Security Platform | Upwind Cloud Security Platform | $30,000.00 |
Upwind Managed Detection & Response | Upwind Managed Detection & Response 24/7 Service | $6,000.00 |
Dimensions summary
You buy this platform on a contract basis, priced in units. Two products anchor the pricing. The Upwind Cloud Security Platform covers cloud security across your environment. The Upwind Managed Detection & Response 24/7 Service adds around-the-clock threat detection, investigation, and response support. You choose the units you need for each product, and your cost scales with that quantity. You can commit to either product on its own or combine both. Pricing rises as you add more units under your contract term.
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This service adds around-the-clock threat detection, investigation, and containment support. Senior researchers join your team on-demand to guide action during active breaches and zero-day incidents. It includes live incident war rooms, attack path reconstruction, and continuous monitoring for follow-up attacker attempts after initial containment.
The platform unifies application security, security posture, and real-time protection on one system. It covers cloud misconfiguration detection, vulnerability management, container and serverless security, and identity entitlement management. It combines agentless scanners with runtime sensors to map assets and prioritize risks across your cloud lifecycle.
Both products bill independently by unit quantity. Your total combines the units chosen for each. The Cloud Security Platform typically scales with the size of your cloud environment. The Managed Detection & Response service scales with the coverage you need. You can commit to either product alone or combine both.
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Included in your contract, Upwind provides 24/7 live chat support, onboarding, and continuous enablement. Onboarding includes integration setup, assistance configuring the platform, and guidance on utilizing it to serve you in your cloud security journey. You can also contact our support team via email at support@upwind.io .
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Cloud Security Posture Management
Combines cloud security posture assessment with runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks in cloud infrastructure.
Runtime Context Analysis
Leverages runtime context to reveal the most critical risks and provide important insights from cloud infrastructure operations.
Real-time Protection
Delivers real-time protection capabilities enabling security teams to respond quickly to identified critical risks.
Consolidated Security Platform
Integrates multiple security tools into a comprehensive Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for unified security management.
Cross-team Collaboration
Brings together security, DevOps, and engineering teams through a unified platform to streamline cloud security operations.
Multi-Cloud and Workload Coverage
Supports deployment across more than 40 AWS services including compute, containers, storage, databases, networking, developer tools, management and governance, analytics, security, application integration, end user computing, machine learning, and migration services. Extends coverage to public and private cloud, Kubernetes, rare Linux distros, IBM LinuxONE, Linux on Z, IBM Power, AIX, and HPC environments.
Unified Security Data Platform
Consolidates cloud security into a single console with unified policy framework and data lake. Normalizes security telemetry close to collection point and streams into detection cloud for queryable attack surface analysis without ETL requirements.
Full Lifecycle Application Protection
Provides end-to-end protection including malware and suspicious behavior detection on developer endpoints, vulnerability identification in build process, secure configuration verification, runtime monitoring, exposure scanning, full attack path analysis, anomaly and behavior-based threat detection, Infrastructure as Code misconfigurations identification, and Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) capabilities.
Agentless and Agent-Based Detection
Offers instant-on agentless coverage with optional osquery-based agent utilizing eBPF technology for runtime protection, advanced remediation, and forensics. Agent designed to minimize memory, CPU, and disk I/O footprint while providing rich security telemetry including file system files, Augeas lens, DNS lookups, sudoers list, and disk encryption data.
Compliance and Security Standards Support
Supports CIS benchmarks, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST, PCI, and SOC 2 compliance requirements. Includes file integrity monitoring (FIM), vulnerability scanning, security hygiene assessment, cyber asset management, and 13-month historical data lookback for compliance and forensic analysis.
Cloud-Native Application Protection
Integrated platform combining Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), and Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) capabilities
Identity-First Risk Correlation
Unifies identity management with vulnerability, misconfiguration, and privilege analysis to correlate risks across cloud resources and infrastructure
AI and Data Security
Detects unauthorized AI software and vulnerabilities in AI workloads while providing Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to protect sensitive data ingested by AI/ML pipelines
Agentless Infrastructure Assessment
Delivers agentless assessment of EC2 instances with native AWS integration for instant visibility into vulnerabilities across traditional IT and cloud-native environments
Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD Security
Implements shift-left security scanning in CI/CD pipelines to identify misconfigurations in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) before deployment to production
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Customer reviews
Anton Paolo d.
Fast, High-Fidelity Cloud Risk Visibility with Upwind
Reviewed on Mar 03, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Upwind gives us fast, high‑fidelity visibility into cloud risk with minimal implementation friction. It correlates posture, workload, and identity data into a prioritized view so my team can focus on issues that are actually exploitable instead of wading through generic CSPM noise.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features still feel early‑stage: reporting and exec‑friendly dashboards are limited, and a few detections/integrations require vendor help to tune. The core signal is strong, but I’d like more polish and self‑service customization around views and workflows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s consolidating fragmented cloud security (CSPM, CDR, CNAPP) into one view and reducing alert fatigue. We get clearer prioritization, faster remediation cycles with engineering, and a more defensible narrative to leadership about how we’re managing cloud risk.
Marketing and Advertising
Outstanding Support and Customization—A Joy to Work With
Reviewed on Oct 28, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Upwind has been a joy to work with from initial contact through deployment and beyond. Their sales and CS staff is on top of any issues and they work diligently to get the right solution in place. Their technical staff has been super responsive to any questions we have and are always willing to consider adding new functionality to meet the needs of their customers. Awesome tool and staff.
What do you dislike about the product?
None so far! If anything there is work to be done on the compliance front for reporting NIST or GDPR compliance checks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing visibility into our cloud environment and making discovery of gaps easy to identify.
Jessica S.
Outstanding Visibility, But Overwhelming Volume of Findings
Reviewed on Oct 28, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Upwind has given us excellent visibility and has greatly enhanced our risk posture.
What do you dislike about the product?
The level of visibility we have leads to a large number of vulnerability findings, which can quickly become overwhelming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using upwind, we lacked any insight into our container run times, so adopting it brought significant value to our operations. Additionally, we now benefit from greater visibility throughout our environment, along with comprehensive data that aids in both identifying and addressing issues.
Computer Software
Lightning-Fast Detections, Needs Bulk Alert Management
Reviewed on Oct 28, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Fast near realtime detections, low noise.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to bulk resolve or suppress alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is an integral component of our organization's cloud detection stack.
Financial Services
Effortless AWS Integration That Delivers as Promised
Reviewed on Oct 27, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely easy implementation to our AWS environment
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular, we don't have enough experience working with alternatives. It delivers what we hoped for
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a good IDPS and Upwind delivered at a balanced price point