Prowler
Prowler is an open-source cloud security tool that scans cloud accounts for security and compliance gaps for security teams and IT staff.
What it is good for
- Finding security misconfigurations across cloud accounts
- Checking cloud setups against compliance standards
- Reviewing security findings in a dashboard
- Prioritizing the most critical cloud security risks
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, Microsoft 365
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 15,155
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Prowler free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (Apache-2.0 license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Prowler?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Prowler work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, and Microsoft 365.
- What is Prowler good for?
- Finding security misconfigurations across cloud accounts, checking cloud setups against compliance standards, reviewing security findings in a dashboard, and prioritizing the most critical cloud security risks.
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