Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with integrated security from code to cloud
Get comprehensive security across multicloud and hybrid environments
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a unified cloud-native platform that helps strengthen your security posture, enables protection against modern threats, and helps reduce risk throughout the cloud application lifecycle across multicloud and hybrid environments.
Unified visibility of your security posture across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and hybrid clouds
Real-time security access and prioritization of the most critical risks with context-aware cloud security
Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) solution across multicloud workloads to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks
Centralized insights across multipipeline and multicloud DevOps to improve application development security
Reduce risk with contextual security posture management
Get continuous security assessment of your cloud resources running in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Explore customizable cloud security graph-based attack path queries to understand critical risk and get contextual threat data to help prioritize remediation. Use built-in policies and prioritized recommendations that are aligned with key industry and regulatory standards to achieve multicloud compliance. Fix issues with integrated insights from code to runtime.
Prevent, detect, and respond quickly to modern threats
Get agentless and agent-based vulnerability scanning for agility and comprehensive workload protection. Gain broad coverage to secure critical workloads across virtual machines (VMs), containers, databases, storage, app services, and more. Focus on the most critical threats first with prioritized security alerts and respond with automated workflows. Enable rapid response with Microsoft 365 Defender and an end-to-end XDR solution.
Unify security management for DevOps
Gain visibility of security posture across multiple continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Get DevOps hardening recommendations and manage code security across Azure DevOps and GitHub and multicloud environments. Use GitHub Advanced Security and Azure DevOps to gain security mitigation insights from scanning across code, dependencies, and secrets. Prevent misconfigurations by the scanning of infrastructure as code templates and container images.
Comprehensive security and compliance, built in
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Microsoft invests more than USD 1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
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We employ more than 3,500 security experts dedicated to data security and privacy.
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Threat protection with pay-as-you-go pricing
Try the enhanced security features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud free for 30 days. After that, pay as you go for the type of workload protection you choose.
Get started with an Azure free account
Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 40+ other services that are always free.
After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.
After 12 months, you'll keep getting 40+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.
Trusted by companies of all sizes
Rabobank grows a safer global IT landscape with Microsoft Security
Raoul van der Voort, Global Service Owner, Cyber Defense Center at Rabobank"We wanted protection and visibility everywhere. That's why we use Defender for Cloud—it gives us single pane of glass visibility across our hybrid and multicloud environment."
Gjensidige puts security front and center
Rida Aatif, Head of the Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Team, Gjensidige"In the past, security issues were often caught at the end of the development process, where they took a lot more time to fix. Today, with automated security controls embedded into their workflows, developers get instant feedback and can fix things right away."
Land O'Lakes protects containers in multicloud environments
Cory Durand, Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect, Land O'Lakes, Inc."Defender for Cloud is our first layer of defense. With the continuous monitoring we achieve with Defender for Cloud, we can identify a bad container and fix it before deploying it."
Documentation, training, and other resources
Get started
Go to the Azure portal to evaluate your cloud security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Understand the Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Learn how unified security control can help to reduce cloud security risk.
Learn more about Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management.
Read an analyst report on the value of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Join the community and access hundreds of resources
Follow the Microsoft Defender for Cloud tech community.
Subscribe to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud blog for the latest updates.
Watch and follow the Defender for Cloud in the field video series to learn about the latest updates and see in-product demos.
Explore product features with this interactive guide.
Documentation and datasheets
Explore documentation and quickstart guides.
Read the Microsoft Defender for Cloud datasheet to start secure and stay secure in your multicloud and hybrid environments.
Read the Cloud Security Posture Management datasheet to reduce risks with contextual insights.
Read the Cloud Workload Protection datasheet to detect and respond to threats in real time.
Find scripts and other resources or contribute to help improve policies and configurations.
Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection solution that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and helps protect workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats.
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Yes. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multicloud security solution. It provides native cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments and supports threat protection across these platforms.
You can also connect non-Azure workloads in hybrid scenarios by using Azure Arc.
Read this documentation to learn more.
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No. Basic cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud are free. Cloud Security Posture Management is available at extra cost, and cloud workload protection capabilities are charged on a per-resource basis. Read the complete pricing details for enhanced security capabilities to help protect your workloads.