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Wallarm launches flat-rate AWS infrastructure discovery

Wallarm launches flat-rate AWS infrastructure discovery

Wed, 10th Jun 2026 (Today)

Wallarm has launched Infrastructure Discovery on AWS Marketplace under AWS's flat-rate pricing programme.

The service targets security teams that want an inventory of AWS infrastructure without costs rising as more assets are discovered. Pricing is based on the number of AWS accounts connected rather than the size of the environment being scanned.

Infrastructure Discovery maps AWS accounts, regions, services, AI workloads and agents across a customer's environment. It also builds a relationship graph to show how systems connect and who created each resource.

The launch comes as cloud buyers face continued pressure to control security spending while expanding the number of services, APIs and AI tools running in production. For some large organisations, usage-based pricing has become a point of friction because costs can rise as visibility improves.

Under Wallarm's model, a customer with 10 AWS accounts pays the same whether those accounts contain dozens of APIs or many thousands. The approach is intended to remove the penalty for discovering more infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

The AWS Marketplace listing includes three public tiers. A free tier covers one AWS account in one region with once-daily scanning and no asset limit.

The Starter tier costs USD $200 a month, or USD $2,400 a year, for three AWS accounts in one region. The Standard tier costs USD $500 a month, or USD $6,000 a year, for 10 AWS accounts across two regions.

Standard subscriptions can be stacked up to five times, extending coverage to 50 accounts for USD $2,500 a month. Larger estates can move to higher tiers through private offers on AWS Marketplace.

All three tiers include continuous scanning with no asset-count limits, although scan frequency differs between the free and paid plans. Each tier also includes a full relationship graph of discovered infrastructure, synchronisation with AWS Security Hub findings, CloudTrail creator attribution for each discovered asset and customer-authored detection rules in Common Expression Language.

How it works

The product uses cross-account IAM role assumption to scan registered AWS accounts and regions. It enumerates compute, network, API Gateway, Lambda and IAM resources, then links those assets in a live map.

CloudTrail attribution is attached to each asset so security teams can see who created a resource, when it was created and where the action came from. The service also synchronises findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM Access Analyser, Macie and AWS Config every five minutes, placing those findings on the relevant node in the relationship graph.

Findings are rewritten in plain language to make them easier for analysts to act on. The feature is designed to reduce the time spent interpreting alerts across multiple AWS security services.

AI governance

Wallarm is positioning Infrastructure Discovery as the first layer of a broader AI governance offering. The company says the service identifies the infrastructure on which AI systems run, while its AI Hypervisor product is intended to show how those AI systems and agents behave.

That link to AI operations reflects a wider shift in enterprise security budgets. Many organisations now need to track not only traditional cloud assets but also AI services, agent-based software and the APIs that connect them.

Wallarm argues that infrastructure mapping gives customers a way to scope later AI governance deployments using data from their own AWS estates. In particular, it says vCPU counts from the graph can be used to size subscriptions for AI Hypervisor.

The company also tied the product to regulatory pressure, citing the need for auditable visibility as AI rules begin to take effect in some markets. For regulated sectors, inventory and attribution are increasingly prerequisites for compliance work as well as security operations.

Shayne Higdon, Chief Executive Officer of Wallarm, said the launch reflects growing demand for foundational visibility before companies move further into AI governance. "AWS choosing Infrastructure Discovery for flat-rate pricing is a signal to the market: AI governance starts with knowing what you have. Every CIO deploying AI, every CISO governing it, every customer preparing for the EU AI Act needs an inventory before anything else can move. We built Infrastructure Discovery to give them that foundation in minutes, on the cloud where most of their workloads already run," Higdon said.

Wallarm, based in Austin, sells security software focused on APIs, AI workloads and applications in production. With Infrastructure Discovery now listed on AWS Marketplace, the company is using predictable account-based pricing to appeal to buyers that want broader cloud visibility without metered costs rising as their estates grow.