Evaluating the security posture of cloud workloads
Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides enhanced extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities for workloads within Azure, AWS, Google, and on-premises/hybrid architectures with the various defender plans for those workloads. These capabilities, along with Microsoft 365 Defender, provide a complete XDR solution for companies to secure their IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads. Let’s look at some resources that can be monitored and protected with Microsoft Defender for Cloud enhanced security Defender plans.
Defender for Server provides threat protection for Azure VMs and non-Azure servers (including server Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)). Using hybrid infrastructure tools such as Azure Arc and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, you can monitor and manage Azure and non-Azure servers. Non-Azure servers include those that are on-premises (or any physical or virtual server with an operating system):
- AWS EC2 instances...
