Getting Started with AWS Security Hub
Overview
AWS Security Hub provides you with a comprehensive view of high-priority security alerts and compliance status across your AWS accounts.
There are many powerful security tools available for you to use, from firewalls and endpoint protection applications to vulnerability scanning and security compliance applications. However, this sometimes requires your team to switch between these tools to deal with hundreds or thousands of security alerts every day. With Security Hub, you now have a single aggregated place that organizes and prioritizes security alerts or findings from multiple AWS services (such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and Amazon Macie) or from solutions provided by AWS partners.
The risks found will be visually summarized on an integrated dashboard with charts and tables that you can interact with. You can also continuously monitor your system by using automated compliance checks against AWS best practices and industry standards that your organization follows.
Cost
Typically, the cost will be less than $1 per month if your account is only used for testing, practice purposes and does not perform simulated attacks.
AWS Security Hub Pricing:
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Security checks | First 100,000 => $0.0010/check |
| 100,001 – 500,000 => $0.0008/check | |
| 500,001+ => $0.0005/check | |
| Finding ingestion events | First 10,000 => free |
| 10,001+ => $0.00003/event |