Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pricing Overview

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/defender-for-cloud/

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

Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Threat protection with pay-as-you-go pricing

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud has 1 pricing edition that is a free trial.

Pricing information for Microsoft Defender for Cloud is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase Microsoft Defender for Cloud must be conducted with the seller.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/defender-for-cloud/

Pricing information was last updated on October 10, 2024

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Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

14 months

Average Discount

Perceived Cost

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GitHub Free for Individuals and Organizations	$0.001 users	Basics for teams and developers Unlimited public/private repositories Unlimited collaborators 2,000 Actions minutes/month (Free for public repositories) 500MB of GitHub Packages storage (Free for public repositories) Community Support New Issues & Projects (in limited beta) Show More

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pricing Reviews

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Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2025

"Defender for cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender is a easy to use and easy to implement. The best benefit is it is inbuilt with azure cloud and also can be integrated with other clouds easily and provide a unified dashboard for all the clouds. It detects the threats, misconfiguration and keep the security check in real time. Along all this, it can also be integrated with many azure services such as Entra Id, purview which helps in seemless data flow and quicker incident response.There are also built in features for audit. Also, the azure support team is always ready to help out in case of any doubts or issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

The pricing can be little complex to understand which can get expensive if not managed wisely. Also due to overwhelming features, it hs a steep learning curve which can be time consuming to go thorugh. It does provide multi cloud support but it is best to be used with Azure services as it doesn't allow deep integration with other clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant D.

Principal Cybersecurity Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/5/2025

"Defender for cloud: Defending Multicloud"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is not just for the workloads or Machines hosted in Azure, but also to those machine which are hosted in AWS and Google cloud too. It's ease to implement, quick view of the report can be customized as per the workload like SQL. it also help to manage the inventory in the cloud as well as workbook for the automation of jobs. Beside that it help to understand the security posture of our cloud services scanning with current vulnerability and security gaps. One of the best part of Defender for cloud is, it secures CI/CD pipelines too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Talking about Microsoft Defender for cloud, i don't specifically find any downside, but sometimes it could be expensive for small medium business houses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud has help me with the single pane of window to monitor and adjust the required security control. with one application I can secure workloads hosted on different clouds. I love the feature of multicloud control from single application. Another best part is of security posture, it helps to understand my current security posture and remediation for any gap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.