Building A Cloud Security Strategy With Aws Native Tools
Tenable, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Are you an Amazon Web Services customer looking to build a cloud security strategy? If so, you've got an array of choices. Learn about their strengths and gaps - and why you need to augment them with a CNAPP like Tenable Cloud Security.
If you're a customer of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and you're looking to build a cloud security strategy, your natural starting point is probably leveraging the provider's own service offerings. AWS certainly offers a rich suite of native capabilities to help you establish foundational security, monitor threats and meet compliance requirements. But if you're looking to scale and support a dynamic environment, you'll soon start to have some challenges. This is where cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) like Tenable Cloud Security offer critical value.
This article is a guide for cloud security practitioners looking to build a foundational security strategy using AWS native tools. We explore what to look out for, especially if you're trying to protect multi-cloud, identity and context-rich scenarios.