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| Attack chains + root-cause grouping | No | No |**31 rules**|
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| What-If remediation simulator | No | No |**Yes**|
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| IAM privilege escalation | No | No |**25 methods**|
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| Remediation per finding | CIS only | No |**100% (CLI + TF)**|
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| AI-SPM (Bedrock/SageMaker) | No | No |**Yes**|
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| Compliance frameworks | CIS | -- |**6**|
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cloud-audit has fewer checks but goes deeper per finding: attack chain correlation, root-cause grouping, cost estimates, and a simulator that shows the impact of each fix before you apply it. If you need exhaustive multi-cloud compliance coverage, use Prowler. If you need to know what to fix first and why, cloud-audit is built for that.
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<sub>Feature snapshot as of v2.0.0 (April 2026).</sub>
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[Prowler](https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler) is the AWS security standard: 572 checks across 83 services, 41 compliance frameworks (CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2, NIST 800, ISO 27001, GDPR, FedRAMP, NIS2, MITRE ATT&CK and more), 55 auto-remediation fixers, and graph-based attack path analysis in the Prowler App (Cartography + Neo4j). It also covers Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, M365, and 10+ other providers.
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cloud-audit is AWS-only and intentionally narrower (94 curated checks). It goes deep where Prowler goes wide: attack chain correlation and IAM escalation detection run in the free CLI with zero infrastructure, every finding ships with reviewable Terraform + AWS CLI remediation, and scan diff / drift tracking is built into the CLI.
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| Feature | Prowler | cloud-audit |
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| AWS checks | 572 across 83 services | 94 across 23 services |
Use Prowler for compliance breadth, multi-cloud coverage, and graph-based attack path analysis. Use cloud-audit for fast CLI-native attack chain detection, reviewable Terraform remediation, and CI/CD drift tracking. They are complementary, not competitors - a common setup is Prowler for quarterly compliance evidence plus cloud-audit daily in CI/CD.
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<sub>Prowler stats verified from github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler (April 2026). cloud-audit snapshot as of v2.0.1.</sub>
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