# AWS IoT Device Defender Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [IoT Security Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-security-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 58 ## About AWS IoT Device Defender AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully managed service that helps you secure your fleet of IoT devices. AWS IoT Device Defender continuously audits the security policies associated with your devices to make sure that they aren't deviating from security practices. ## AWS IoT Device Defender Reviews ### 1. Clear IoT Security Monitoring with a Steep Initial Learning Curve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2026 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I like the security monitoring capabilities and policy-based alerts that help identify abnormal device behavior. It provides good visibility into IoT device compliance and potential security risks. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The setup and configuration can feel complex at first, especially for teams new to IoT security. Interpreting alerts also requires some familiarity with AWS IoT concepts. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT Device Defender helps monitor IoT devices for security issues such as misconfigurations and unusual behavior. This improves visibility into device health and helps reduce potential security risks in IoT deployments. ### 2. AWS IoT Device Defender a complete security solution for IOT devices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ABHISHEK J. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The best thing about AWS IoT Device Defender it helps you to secure your fleet of IoT devices. basically, it provides three service 1. IoT security audit is off 2. monitor device activity 3. conduct the ongoing audit **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The cost of this service AWS IoT Device Defender is a little bit high otherwise it is the best service of AWS. The cost of this service is charged hourly by the AWS **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives us the ability to continuous monitoring of our IoT devices and their security. It helps us in the monitoring and the conduct outgoing audit easy. this service make it unique and helps to debug the issue easily ### 3. AWS IoT Defender: Is it needed to secure yourself? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash K. | Marketing executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Real-time threat alert or behavior-shift alert is something that I admire the most about the software. Being part of an educational institution, I had to convince & take full responsibility to make the place IoT-friendly because of data leaks, security compromises & other security concerns. With this X509-certified software, it makes sure that the devices do not deviate from their intended purpose & authority (permissions). **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** To be honest, I did not find a flaw in this software because my primary use case is not too complex. I had bare minimum requirements from the software & it performed on its mark. If I find a flaw shortly, would surely like to update it here & inform the concerned stakeholders to get it rectified. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** Any person who wishes to make their lifestyle IoT-friendly should go ahead with this software; be it for personal use or commercial use. There is no issues that I could find at the moment, i.e., 0 breaches which speaks for itself. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating IoT-friendly devices at the workplace, connecting them & using them to facilitate a better lifestyle is something that AWS IoT Device Defender is resolving. The primary concern of any person in such a case is security concerns like leaks & anomalies. The software has an easy interface & alert mechanism which updates the authorized personnel about any data breaches, compromises & security concerns in real-time. This has helped me trust the devices, upload the data to the cloud & be sound about their security. Peace of mind is what I am getting out of this software, apart from other tangible things. ### 4. AWS IOT must use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jevik L. | Engineering Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I like more AWS IoT nowadays. it is very using full for developers. it is easy to use to connect with hardware or software devices using IoT AWS. it provides much more security. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** As per my thought, AWS IOT needs to improve some speed or progress. so we can use it more than from now. it is very poor regarding device management. sometimes it take more time to understand some things. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** as per me, AWS IoT needs to improve some processes. it will take more time to connect sometimes so need to improve that. no doubt AWS is very good than AWS IoT. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** So, as per me, AWS IOT has some bit bucket data center so AWS IoT device defender solves some progress issues so user can use their version of IoT in AWS.solve some time-consuming issues. ### 5. Let's Discuss about AWS Iot. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VISHAL G. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I like the mostabout in AWS Iot is its connection duration. I like to work with AWS the bug bucket is mainly used in AWS. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** As per me sometimes it's take much more time to connect with other device but we can manage that but someone need to fix that issue as soon as possible. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Iot device defender need to more accurate with other device. Sometimes it's easy to connect and that is mainly helpfull for me in work. ### 6. Recommended Security Service for your IOT Project **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I have used it in one of my personal projects, what I found is that this provides best practices when it comes to security. This reports all the configurations that dont comply with best security practices. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Used it very briefly so as to mention any kind of dislikes, this is quite complex to use and requires a learning curve but at the end of the day, it does make life easy. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** Recommended **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enforces to use best security compliance providing best authorization and authentication practices. Safeguards stakeholders from a number of unwanted attacks. ### 7. A good security audit and issue tracker **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** We get one month of AWS IoT device defender free of cost trial, it can execute security audits to find vulnerabilities and identity gaps, and we can define or own machine learning models to deal with specific types of dangerous attacks. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Well, amazon as always focuses on quality and customer satisfaction at its best, I havent seen any flaws till now, and I hope they keep upgrading the latest vulnerabilities otherwise it will be bad. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us enable IoT-friendly devices at the workplace, and the software is having an easy interface and use case and sends alerts when something is bad. ### 8. AWS IoT the best defender? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Earnest P. | Research And Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's monitoring capability for detecting anomalities for cloud metrics. Best is alert generation which is done once the anomality is triggered. Compared to azure it is reigning it's space. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** In my days of using the service I did not find a drawback in this product. Should there be any new vulnerability which could pull this service down I hope the engineers fix that too. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Alert while any anomality is detected - This has been a key guide in helping me solve and find vulnerabilities in my system and the host product. Our business is safe guarded via this service. ### 9. AWS IOS device defender. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jenish L. | QA/QC Engineer with all Execution work, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** According to me It provides fully manage service. It has very good audit configuration which is helpfull in connecting to device. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** According to me i had not faced any such major flaw till now but i think it might be difficult for any complex case. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before some time it was having problem in integrating but some time ago it has improved and i find it very helpfu, yes it is very helpful for me in increasing my productivity. ### 10. AWS IoT Device Defender : Security need of the hour **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Since I am working on an idea, my requirements are not huge, but it requires that my application is secured and there are not any sudden anomalies in the metrics. And if one is there, I get real-time alerts, which can prevent data exploitation. AWS IoT Device Defender works as charm for my use case and also easy to manage. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** There's nothing as such which I dislike about the product. If I find some bug/vulnerability in the product, I would let concerned stakeholders know about it as soon as possible. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** As per my use case, there should not be any sudden spike in the data persistence metrics. And even if there's one, I should get immediate alerts/pagers for that. AWS IoT Device Defender is serving that purpose as a charm. For me, it prevents malicious data inflow/outflow from the AWS resources. ### 11. IOT LOVE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BALAMURUGAN S. | Cloud engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** AWS IoT Core enables you to connect devices to AWS Services and other devices, secure data and interactions, process and act upon device data, enables applications to interact with devices even when they are offline and that allows you to produce low-cost Alexa built-in devices. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** there is no disadvantages in AWS IoT device defender **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** IoT devices use to implement the Smart Home. IoT devices help in monitoring things in the industrial sector. It helps to collect data from different devices and generating alerts in case of any threshold. Intelligence Industries. ### 12. Amazon IOT Device Defender **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** We have used AWS IoT Device Defender to safeguard our client's IoT senors placed in a manufacturing unit for implementing Industry 4.0 solutions. Its machine learning and automation capabilities have ensured that we get alerts whenever something abnormal or spike in a particular metric is detected which lets us sleep at night :) **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing to dislike as such, but its integration with other services of AWS could be made easier and more intuitive. However, this could be considered as a could have in future. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** It is a must-have managed service to have in your architecture in case you are dealing with sensors and need to follow legal security compliance requirements. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving Industry 4.0 problems where we are protecting and monitoring sensors security-related aspects using AWS IoT Device Defender ### 13. Security of our devices using AWS IoT defender **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suvajit M. | D, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** 1) Anomaly Detection 2) Device Monitoring 3) Auditing device related resources like IoT policy, Client IDs 4) Principle of least privilege 5) Unique identity per device **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** 1) Limited Computing Power at times 2) Support to more range of Application vulnerabilities 3) Data Management can be richer 4) Admin panel. However, it was fixed on time. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** You should first do a PoC and try to hire internal AWS experts. Billing aspect needs to be monitored at all times. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Device Protection 2) Proactive monitoring 3) AI based detection 4) Alarms at the right time ### 14. Adding one more layer on IoT devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kush D. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's ML part which is already trained and on the top of that we can add our own model to define device behaviors to monitor traffic and set the upmost security. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Defining the device behavior by our own is quite difficult sometimes where we don't have enough data available. Furthermore we have to wait to gather some data for the same **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using IoT Device defender we are trying to add more security and get more data metrics which can be used to detect the anomalies and to receive necessary alerts ### 15. Excellent Service for IoT security! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I had a little bit idea about the utility through some technical blogs but I'm glad for managing to take out some time to understand about this fully managed service for IoT devices' security. The continual auditing of IoT configurations is a need of the hour so as to ensure round the clock security of these highly advanced devices. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I did not find any drawbacks of this product so far. in fact, I doubt if there is any immediate vulnerability available that could jeopardize with the security of the IoT devices. I absolutely loved to know about the product. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** Just go for it! **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** The alerting mechanism to send relevant security alerts in case of an anomaly is fantastic. It will for sure help prevent/reduce the damages due to security breaches. ### 16. AWS Iot defender suggestion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brij L. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I like the most system and design of AWS Iot. As per me the GUI of Iot is best for developer. Its provide best platform for developer. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** As per me some times its take much more time to complete the connection process. Just add some Good user interface in GUI it should work good for developer. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** The connection of device to cloud in AWS Ioy defender is Good and it's most benefit things from my side. It is use full for developer. ### 17. The Iot Defender You Need For Your Organisation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham S. | CTF Player, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I had used it for past several months and it is so good and helpful for my organisation The security is too good great work team for making a great product **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** the downside of using Aws IoT Device Defender is that I had faced issues in the Admin Panel and I had to contact with the team **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** yes for sure i will recommend other to use this product **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** the main thing which it is solving is that it is reducing time and also now it is fast to connect ### 18. Easy to configure and establish iot Devices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurang J. | DevOps + System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The protocols are easy to understand and secured. Also we can access it through cloud services and configured them with another aws IOT services. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I like everything about the service but if they can develop the other services like seml service then it will be very helpful. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Till now I was managing all my tasks in my local system but from now onwards i can configure and establish network on cloud also. ### 19. Awesome product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's fully managed service of audit in cloud and have made easy to identify any issue or abnormal behavior is very great. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing as such which I didn't like about this platform. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's help a lot in terms of privacy and security concerns. It has great features and works in offline mode as well so in the case when we are using these features for client's we do not bother about internets disruption which is the best thing about this device. ### 20. Amazing experience and understanding pertaining to IOT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshit G. | Senior Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** AWS IOT device defender is likely to full full the industry gap by providing the appropriate solution and hence might lead the industry by setting as a benchmark. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Training and affordability for enterprise products can slightly be optimised. Hence looking forward for a better scalable approach. Present situation and product lineup also works fine. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IOT Device defender is solving the industry issue of security and further information security concern. Trust adaptability and ease of use is something looking forward to. ### 21. Easy to use, easy to config, very intuitive, friendly, etc. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viorel V. | .NET Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Works without any issues or bugs. Easy to do any stuff you need. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Maybe isn't the easiest tool for beginner. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure different connections with different IoT devices, create various gateway/bridges, etc ### 22. IOT device Defender the Savior **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Protect against malicious IP's(it can be from a BOT as well!) Report visibility is what that can give a clear picture of the type of threats blocked and prevented. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** none as of now apart from setting it up for a new device. This can make the device slow in a few days. It is recommended that an enterprise device is used by the users for full protection **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** An MDM solution and AWS IoT defender can work in tandem for full device lifecycle management in BYOD scenario and also protect from internal and external risks. ### 23. The best defender for your device **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's easy to manage and whenever any data exploitation detected we receive real time alerts. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I think nothing which i dislike about Amazon IoT **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Receiving realtime alert and AI based detection, Which is very beneficial for me. ### 24. Very Innovative And Secure Iot Solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The Integrations with Various Electronics Devices In Very secured Way, and It has Many Other Tools Integration Support Also **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing More, But More Number Of Tools Can Be Integrated with AWS IOT **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best Problem AWS IOT Solved Is The Cloud Integration For Any IOt Devices. ### 25. Best and smart IOT services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | Devops Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Love the Interactive Dashboard and Manageable Tools and Alerts **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Supports Less Hardware Devices And Still There is Tiny Delay **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** Smart Devices which needs data To be Managed **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuring SmartHone device With Amazon Web Services and It's Giving Best Benefits over Managing In Self Handed ### 26. AWS IoT Device Defender Best Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishabh J. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The best part is the alerting system that sends alerts in case of abnormal behavior and receives notifications for audit findings. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** I did not find any cons about this product. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** All good. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS IoT Device Defender helps by sending alerts in abnormal device behavior and helps monitor connected Device behavior continuously. ### 27. Amazing product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohith I. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Good interface, love the UI that helps us to work easily in AWS **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Needs few more features that match up to the requirements - interface with the Data management etc. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me win over the connections and devices, work continuously without any interruptions ### 28. Review AWS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It is mostly helpful to be able for you to authenticate devices and see id they have any malfunctions and receive alerts **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** There is nothing I dislike everything ks gold until now bery useful **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** Try being familiar with all the tools they offer you because they are really helpful and save you a lot of time **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to detect anomalities in real time and be able to do something about it and monitor them ### 29. It's quite good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mithlesh k. | Associate Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Easily identify cals and vulnerabilities **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Sometimes it's hard to setup and in some cases the use cases are not covered properly **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to perform more automated monitoring, troubleshooting and support to the end customer ### 30. Best IOT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mushahid A. | Associate Software Engineer ( Salesforce Developer) , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The best thing I liked is it's bery easy to use, User friendly and have zero problems. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing I diskiled about it. Everything was well and good. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes easy to maintain and endforce Iot configurations, such as authenticating and authorizing devices. ### 31. A Great Security of IoT fleet **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran Kumar Y. | AWS Release & Deployment Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Greatly helps in analyzing Historical devices securely. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Haven't seen it yet with my past Organization. We have done some POC on it. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was helping us in auditing, detecting anomalies and sending alerts ### 32. It has lot of technical functionalities and capabilities. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar K. | Senior security engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's ML and AI detailed information on alert **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Not found anything yet, will have to get more experienced **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Audit congratulations and device anomalies alert ### 33. IOT Device Defender Trial review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Dashboard monitoring in almost realtime for the data being passed through to validate accuracy. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Pricing is expensive, requires integration into the AWS cloud solutions and that adds on to the training cost for ramping up new team members. **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** Great if getting into the AWS ecosystem, however for one-off use cases, this may be too much. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapping out data validation and accuracy between devices connecting with each other, and securely monitoring. ### 34. IOT device defender scalability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nilesh S. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Most important part is scalability. It help IOT industry very likely. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing as of now. But it may have some simpler ways. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help us to secure our IOT devices. Its actually audit our IOT configuration for security. ### 35. 100% Secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh S. | Customer Success Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** security and auditing the configuration of all the connected devices. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Difficult to set up, the UI needs to be a bit more user friendly **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing ### 36. Experience has been fairly good. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank G. | Engineering Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Overall authentication and authorisation process **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Too complex for new user, some Intuitive documentation might help **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to aunthenticate and generate alerts ### 37. Customer Friendly IOT Device Defender **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Narad Kumar S. | Azure Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Device authentication and alert receiving capabilities. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** As of now. we do not have any dislike. UI is also perfect **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time alerting of IOT device ### 38. That realy good thing which pervent IOT devices from unauthrize access. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Randhir T. | DevOps Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** protection from overutilization. over throttling **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** there is nothing to dislike as such , good device **Recommendations to others considering AWS IoT Device Defender:** yes recommend **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** unauthorized access if it's open. ### 39. The best security management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamlesh K. | Technical Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's monitoring and alarms features the way it continuously detects anomalies in device behaviours **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing as of now, can comment once experience something **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in auditing iot configurations ### 40. Great Product !! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj P. | Executive - Resourcing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It detects unusual behaviour of the devices that may be compromised. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing to dislike for this great product. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It audits our IoT configurations regularly to make sure the security aren't deviated. ### 41. Shivangi Sharma_review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivangi S. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Audit and monitor device configurations. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing as of now. Everything is perfect **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifies anamalous datapoints for six cloud- side metrics eg message sent counts etc. ### 42. Very Amazing Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** 1) Very easy to use 2)Security monitoring notifications **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** 1)Add more features like automatic malware and virus deletion. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scanning and detecting vulnerabilities is benefiting me on a long run as I don't want to use any human resource for ths work. ### 43. useful for auth and audit trails **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Like the exaustive set of features that help you to hit the ground running, specially for authentication and auditing requirements. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** The ecosystem integrations seem a bit lacking, and could lead to potential roadblocks in the future **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auditing and authentication for iot nodes ### 44. Good **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Secure, cost effective and mostly a good choice for iot solutions on cloud. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Still lesser awareness among the community. Free tier is not explorable. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us setup devices, configure them and recieve alerts in case of issues. This a high level answer. ### 45. I think it's a cool technology and we should be using it often. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Device connection and monitoring on a continuous basis, encryption of device data i.e., security and privacy of data is maintained **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It's a little expensive and that's the only thing I could have pointed out for this amazing product. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Device Data encryption-- I feel my data is safe and private. ### 46. Tekla modelers and detailing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pravin M. | Tekla steel Detailer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Modeling and detailing is the best in tekla system **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Nothing special but impov new update system **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Structure steel construction design ### 47. Most stable and best Iot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** It detects unusual behavior of the devices that may be ignored and its monitoring alarm is so good. **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Pricing is a little high but except that everything is so good. **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping us in securing our Iot devices and connection between them is easy. ### 48. It is fully managed service that helps securing of IoT devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Best part is the alerting system that it sents alerts in case of secu riske **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Security vulnerabilities are the drawbacks which can impact the availability to the application **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in auditing ,cont monitoring of device to identify anomalies,and sends alerts to take action ### 49. I love IOT technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** They make this World better place. Impro **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Data breach Complexity Increase of unemployment **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Iot device defender makes its esay to audit configuration, authentic device, detect anomaties ### 50. Very good experience with monitoring dashboard **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS IoT Device Defender?** Accuracy and flexible monitoring facilities with multiple number of IOT devices **What do you dislike about AWS IoT Device Defender?** as such nothing but need to integrate more tools which are currently not integrated **What problems is AWS IoT Device Defender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complex calculation with smart monitoring ## AWS IoT Device Defender Discussions - [Need aws Amazon smtp](https://www.g2.com/discussions/need-aws-amazon-smtp) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How can I improve my IoT device security?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-improve-my-iot-device-security) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View AWS IoT Device Defender pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-device-defender/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+18%3A55%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=94216fa2-fc2e-464c-a5f7-061cf0797d02&secure%5Btoken%5D=b0aeb39d7693701901cc3554e8ebfbf10472b9b30b573cd8e92deec06b60ba14&format=llm_user) ## AWS IoT Device Defender Features **Connected Device Security** - Vulnerability Assessment - Identity Lifecycle - Threat Protection - Behavior Analysis - Incident Response - IoT Network Security - OTA Updates - Alerts & Notifications **Platform** - Dashboard - Hardware - Performance - Reporting ## Top AWS IoT Device Defender Alternatives - [Microsoft Defender for IoT](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-defender-for-iot/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (97 reviews) - [Google Cloud IoT Core](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-iot-core/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (29 reviews) - [Azure IoT Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-iot-hub/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (38 reviews)