Shieldly vs ScoutSuite: PR-Time Policy Fixes vs Multi-Cloud Posture Audits

ScoutSuite is an open-source, multi-cloud security auditing tool. You point it at a live account with read-only credentials and it collects configuration data across services, then renders an HTML report ranking risks by severity. It supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others. Shieldly takes the opposite vantage point: it is an AI-Powered analyzer for AWS IAM, resource policies, and CloudFormation that explains why a specific policy is risky and returns the corrected version — free, no signup, before the change ships.

What ScoutSuite Is Great At

A fast, read-only snapshot of an existing account's posture across multiple clouds. When you inherit an environment or want a periodic risk review, ScoutSuite enumerates what is deployed and surfaces the high-severity items in one report. Being multi-cloud, it is useful for teams that run more than just AWS and want a single auditing workflow.

Where Shieldly Fits

ScoutSuite reviews what already exists; Shieldly reviews what you are about to deploy. ScoutSuite tells you a misconfiguration is live in the account, after the fact. Shieldly catches the risky policy while it is still a diff in a pull request, explains the exact problem, and hands the author a tightened policy — so the misconfiguration never reaches the account in the first place.

It also needs no credentials to deliver value. ScoutSuite requires read access to your account; Shieldly works on the policy text itself. Paste a document into the web app, or run the @shieldly/cli, VS Code extension, GitHub Action, or @shieldly/cdk-guard construct.

Side by Side

Use Both

The two cover different ends of the lifecycle. ScoutSuite gives you account-wide, multi-cloud posture after the fact; Shieldly prevents risky AWS policies from shipping in the first place.

• Run ScoutSuite periodically for a read-only posture snapshot across all of your clouds.
• Run Shieldly on every PR that touches IAM or CloudFormation so risky policies are explained and fixed before merge.
• Treat ScoutSuite findings as a backlog of what is already live, and Shieldly as the gate that stops new instances of the same problem.

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