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Prisma Cloud is licensed based on the number of “credits” secured in public cloud and on-premise environments.
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Cloud resources targeted by Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) | number of credits consumed | |||||
Enterprise Edition | Compute Edition | |||||
Cloud Security Posture Monitoring | ||||||
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 |
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 | ||||
Resources covered by Cloud Discovery and Exposure Mitigation (CDEM) | ||||||
Cloud Discovery & Exposure Management 25% of the credits you have used for the CSPM features listed above |
0.25 | Not applicable | ||||
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Covered Resources | ||||||
Data Security Posture Monitoring | Not applicable | |||||
IaaS/PaaS data: per asset *3 | 1 | |||||
DBaaS (Database as a Service) data: Per 1TB of data volume*3 | 1 | |||||
SaaS data: per user *3 | 0.1 | |||||
AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Covered Resources | ||||||
AI Security Posture Monitoring Included in DSPM |
- | Not applicable |
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 |
Web Application and API Security (OOB = Out-of-Band) *2 Per Deployed Defender |
2 | 2 |
Web Application and API Security (Agentless) *3 Per VM |
2 | 2 |
Resources covered by Code Security (CS) | ||
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Per developer committing to the repository |
3 | Not applicable |
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Per developer committing to the repository |
4 | Not applicable |
Secret Security Per developer committing to the repository |
1 | Not applicable |
CI/CD Security Per developer committing to the repository |
3 | Not applicable |
*: The average amount of credits consumed over the past three months can be calculated and checked on the console.
*1: Virtual Machine (VM) refers to a virtual machine running on a public cloud account protected by Prisma Cloud.
*2: Only display on the console and alert notifications.
*3: Displayed on the console only.
*4: A developer is defined as an active Git committer (identified by a unique email address of the Git author) who has contributed to a code repository protected by Prisma Cloud within the past 90 days.
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 | 15 | 2 credits | 20 |
Total number of credits consumed | 91 |

(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 |

(Additional 70 credits can be used at any time as needed)
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