Prisma Cloud (formerly Twistlock)

Prisma cloud

License specification

Prisma Cloud is licensed based on the number of “credits” secured in public cloud and on-premise environments.

1 license (100 credits)
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Cloud resources targeted by Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) number of credits consumed
Enterprise Edition Compute Edition
Amazon Web Service
Amazon EC2
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machines
Google Cloud Platform
Google Compute Engine (GCE)
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud ECS
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Compute
1 Not applicable as it is only a CWP function
Per VM *1
Resources covered by Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)  
IAM Security
25% of the number of credits consumed by the above CSPM features
0.25 Not applicable as it is only a CWP function
Container/serverless resources covered by Cloud Workload Protection (CWP)  
Host security: Linux/Windows
Every time Defender is installed on a host that does not have a container execution environment installed
0.5 1
Container security: Linux/Windows
Each Defender installation on the host where the container runs
5 7
Serverless security for containers: AWSFargate/Google Cloud Run/Azure ACI
Each container (task) executed
1 1
Serverless Security: AWS Lambda/GoogleCloudFunctions/AzureFunctions
Every 6 functions of protected functions
1 1
Web Application and API Security
Per host Defender
2 30
Resources covered by CloudCodeSecurity (CCS)  
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security
For each 3Defender installation *2
1 Not possible due to CSPM function
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
4Defender installation
1 Not possible due to CSPM function
Secrets Security
1 Defender installation
1 Not possible due to CSPM function

*1 Virtual machine (VM) refers to a virtual machine running on a public cloud account protected by Prisma Cloud.
*2 You can check the amount of credits consumed on the console by calculating the average for the past three months.

Consumption of the above number of credits is subject to change, and the latest license system is based on the following.

model case

subject Usage Consumption credit unit consumption
container host 10 5 credits 50
host 6 0.5 credits 3
Fargate task 8 1 credit 8
WAAS 10 2 credits 20
Total number of credits consumed 81
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1 license (100 credits)
(Additional 19 credits can be used at any time as needed)
subject Usage Consumption credit unit consumption
container host 30 5 credits 150
host 60 0.5 credits 30
AWS 300 1 credit 300
GCP 300 1 credit 300
IAM Security 300 (AWS)
300 (GCPs)
25% of each CSPM resource 75
75
Total number of credits consumed 930
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10 licenses (1000 credits)
(Additional 70 credits can be used at any time as needed)

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