Agentless Scanning - Relative Costs for Scanning Instances

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Agentless Scanning - Relative Costs for Scanning Instances

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We are considering agentless scanning with Prisma Cloud Compute.

Temporary scanning instances are spun up to perform the scans, whether the agentless scanning is configured to scan hosts in the same cloud account or from a dedicated hub cloud account.

Can anyone share insight/experience regarding the additional runtime costs (in relative terms) incurred by these scanning instances, especially on AWS?

We are trying to get rough idea if extra charges for scanning instances would be significant if we enable this feature.

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L1 Bithead

Hi JSchneider1,

 

Licensing wise, the agentless  cost is the same way as agent-based as each module depending on the resource protected.
Example: A linux host (non Docker) is 1 credit. A host with containers will be 7 credits

 

Overhead cost wise: If you're referring to overhead cloud resource charges, the agentless scanner instance is spun up within your cloud environment to perform the scanning and then torn down. That can incur some extremely minimal resource charges.

 

When ‘auto-scale scanners' is enabled, an additional scanner is spun up for every ‘n’ running instances in the region (Ohio, etc) in the cloud account, up to 40 scanners (where ‘n’ is the number of snapshots that provider supports to be attached per instance)
The limit is placed so we don't spin up too many instances charging customers.
Customers can choose to have more by manually adding the number of scanners.

 

Note: Although auto-scaling scan your workload much faster, it can also increase your associated overhead charges. So keep that in mind if enabling auto-scaling


For more details: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/prisma-cloud/22-06/prisma-cloud-compute-edition-admin/vulne...

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L1 Bithead

Hi JSchneider1,

 

Licensing wise, the agentless  cost is the same way as agent-based as each module depending on the resource protected.
Example: A linux host (non Docker) is 1 credit. A host with containers will be 7 credits

 

Overhead cost wise: If you're referring to overhead cloud resource charges, the agentless scanner instance is spun up within your cloud environment to perform the scanning and then torn down. That can incur some extremely minimal resource charges.

 

When ‘auto-scale scanners' is enabled, an additional scanner is spun up for every ‘n’ running instances in the region (Ohio, etc) in the cloud account, up to 40 scanners (where ‘n’ is the number of snapshots that provider supports to be attached per instance)
The limit is placed so we don't spin up too many instances charging customers.
Customers can choose to have more by manually adding the number of scanners.

 

Note: Although auto-scaling scan your workload much faster, it can also increase your associated overhead charges. So keep that in mind if enabling auto-scaling


For more details: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/prisma-cloud/22-06/prisma-cloud-compute-edition-admin/vulne...

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