12 Best Multi-Cloud Security Platforms Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
A buyer's guide compares pricing and features of 12 multi-cloud security platforms including Wiz, Prisma Cloud, FortiCNAPP, and Defender for Cloud.
The GBHackers roundup profiles 12 multi-cloud security platforms, including Wiz, Fortinet FortiCNAPP, Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, Sysdig, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Uptycs, and Check Point CloudGuard. It focuses on cross-cloud billing parity, connector fees, ELA absorption, and negotiation tactics for procurement teams. The article notes Ermetic has consolidated into Tenable Cloud Security and that Google's acquisition of Wiz is finalized.
- Multi-cloud pricing fails via unit drift, connector asymmetry, and CNAPP exclusion of network/access layers.
- Notes Ermetic is now Tenable Cloud Security and Google's Wiz acquisition is finalized.
- Recommends normalizing every finalist's quotes against a per-provider workload inventory before purchase.
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Quick Answer: Multi-cloud doesn’t just triple your attack surface it triples your billing surface, and vendors price the same workload differently per provider. Wiz and Prisma Cloud sell one-contract parity; Microsoft publishes rates that now extend to AWS/GCP connectors; Fortinet and Check Point bundle into fabric ELAs; Aviatrix bills the network layer everyone else ignores. […]
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