AWS has launched a new version of its Security Hub that solves the massive workload involved in cross domain security solution correlation and management.
The original AWS Security Hub was announced in 2018, designed to aggregate and prioritize alerts from AWS and third-party security tools.
In late 2025, AWS announced a ‘re-imagined’ Security Hub. It unified several of its own security tools, including Inspector and GuardDuty, effectively into a mini-SOC. Inspector is vulnerability scanning; GuardDuty is threat detection. In the re-imagined Security Hub, they can now integrate under a single pane of glass to map activity against vulnerabilities to highlight the most urgent threats and help customers prioritize and respond to their most critical security risks.
Now, in early 2026, AWS announced Security Hub Extended. This allows customers to bring third party solutions into the same mini-SOC. It is, writes AWS, “A plan of Security Hub that simplifies how you procure, deploy, and integrate a full-stack enterprise security solution across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, and security operations.”
For now, this full integration is limited to a range of curated vendors, selected from AWS customers’ own preferences. The current vendors include 7AI, Britive, CrowdStrike, Cyera, Island, Noma, Okta, Oligo, Opti, Proofpoint, SailPoint, Splunk, Upwind, and Zscaler. The intent is to offer integrated full stack security within AWS.
“The selection was customer-driven,” explains Michael Fuller, director of security services at AWS. “Over the last four months, we went directly to our largest and fastest-growing enterprise customers and asked them which specific solutions they wanted us to prioritize in each category for the initial launch. We are committed to listening to customers and expanding the partner set over time.”
The integration is made possible by the partner vendors all providing their findings in the open cybersecurity schema framework (OCSF). The data brought into the Security Hub Extended framework is consequently pre-normalized, and Security Hub Extended can perform instant and automatic cross-domain correlation to detect and highlight more granular threats.
The new Hub goes beyond simplifying output correlation – it also simplifies product management whenever one of the partner vendors is used. AWS becomes the seller of record, and no matter how many of the partner vendors are used, there is only one invoice combined within the single AWS monthly bill.
“AWS is the seller of record, with pre-negotiated pricing and a single bill covering all selected curated partner solutions,” explains Fuller. “Customers select only the solutions they need. A customer using multiple curated partner solutions would pay for each solution selected.” But always within the single invoice.
He continues, “Security Hub Extended plan offers flexible pay-as-you-go pricing with no upfront investments and no long-term commitments. Flat-rate pricing is also available.”
Customers are not required to use third-party vendors from the curated partners list. “Security Hub already supports multiple third-party partner integrations through its standard program,” adds Fuller, “so a customer’s existing vendor can already send findings into Security Hub today.” But this would require additional work from the customer and would not qualify for the single invoice structure.
The triple benefit of Security Hub Extended is intended to be an easier correlation of security findings within the Hub’s mini SOC offering automated and improved full stack security; no additional coding required from the customer; and drastically reduced administrative overhead in finding, negotiating and on-going payment for multiple separate third party solutions.
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