Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks vs C3M Cloud Control

Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks8.6Visit C3M Cloud Control7.9Visit

Higher score Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks #3 in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management Software 8.6/10 14-day trial Free trial✓ 1 of 3 features Visit Datadog

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C3M Cloud Control #5 in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management Software 7.9/10 Pricing on request ✓ 0 of 3 features Visit C3M

• Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks fits best

  AWS-led teams wanting priced identity-risk monitoring

• C3M Cloud Control fits best

  Teams wanting CIEM with posture management

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Side by side

Feature	Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks 8.6/10 Visit ↗	C3M Cloud Control 7.9/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.6	7.9
Ranking	#3 in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management Software	#5 in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management Software
Best for	AWS-led teams wanting priced identity-risk monitoring	Teams wanting CIEM with posture management
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	$10/device/mo	Pricing on request
Free plan	—	Not checked yet
Free trial	14 days	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks 1/3 · C3M Cloud Control 0/3
Automated remediation	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Just-in-time access	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Policy simulation	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Supported clouds	AWS, Azure, GCP	Not checked yet
Cloud account limit	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Deployment model	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Continuously detects excessive privileges and privilege-escalation paths Analyzes direct, indirect, cross-account, and permission-gap access Automates remediation through workflows and Terraform pull requests	Combines cloud identity and entitlement governance with posture management Provides multicloud inventory, compliance reporting, and policy governance Adds infrastructure-as-code scanning and automated remediation playbooks
Cons	No product-specific free plan Pricing is calculated per host rather than per cloud account Workload Protection and file integrity monitoring require Enterprise	Kubernetes security is not included Pricing requires contacting sales The free assessment is not a perpetual free product plan
Our verdict	Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks helps security and DevOps teams find and reduce cloud identity risk across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It continuously scans for excessive administrative privileges, permission gaps, privilege-escalation… Read the review →	C3M Cloud Control is an agentless cloud security platform for organizations operating public-cloud infrastructure. It brings together cloud security posture management, cloud identity and entitlement governance, multicloud asset inventory,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks — where it wins

  • Continuously detects excessive privileges and privilege-escalation paths
  • Analyzes direct, indirect, cross-account, and permission-gap access
  • Automates remediation through workflows and Terraform pull requests

  Where it doesn't

  • No product-specific free plan
  • Pricing is calculated per host rather than per cloud account
  • Workload Protection and file integrity monitoring require Enterprise

• C3M Cloud Control — where it wins

  • Combines cloud identity and entitlement governance with posture management
  • Provides multicloud inventory, compliance reporting, and policy governance
  • Adds infrastructure-as-code scanning and automated remediation playbooks

  Where it doesn't

  • Kubernetes security is not included
  • Pricing requires contacting sales
  • The free assessment is not a perpetual free product plan

• Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks8.6/10 · 14-day trial

  A paid, AWS-oriented identity-risk product with cross-cloud scanning and Terraform remediation.

  Visit DatadogFull verdict →
• C3M Cloud Control7.9/10 · Pricing on request

  A broad agentless platform combining CIEM, CSPM, compliance, and remediation.

  Visit C3MFull verdict →