Beyond Detection: Native Joins AWS Security Hub Extended to Bring Real-Time Infrastructure Enforcement

In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, the old ways of keeping things secure are starting to show their age. We’ve spent years focusing on 'detection'—identifying a problem after it has already occurred. But as environments get more complex and AI accelerates the speed of infrastructure changes, simply knowing something is wrong isn't enough. You need to be able to prevent it from happening in the first place.

That’s why the recent announcement from Native is such a significant milestone for the industry. Native, a leader in cloud security control planes for multi-cloud enterprises, has officially announced its availability through AWS Security Hub Extended. This new plan from AWS is designed to unify security operations across various partner tools, and by bringing Native into the fold, AWS customers now have a powerful new way to enforce secure-by-design principles directly within their architecture.

Moving from Visibility to Enforcement

For a long time, the industry standard was to monitor, detect, and then react. However, the modern enterprise moves too fast for that. Native’s integration with AWS Security Hub Extended signals a shift in strategy. Instead of just giving you another dashboard full of alerts, Native allows organizations to pair visibility with actual architectural enforcement.

By leveraging provider-native controls—think Service Control Policies (SCPs), identity boundaries, network segmentation, and declarative guardrails—Native translates a company’s security intent into deterministic enforcement. This means you aren’t just watching for an insecure state; you are preventing it from ever existing in your AWS environment. It’s about building guardrails directly into the cloud provider itself.

A New Philosophy: Secure-by-Design

Amit Megiddo, Co-founder and CEO of Native, put it perfectly when he noted that cloud security can no longer stop at findings. Organizations need infrastructure-level enforcement that translates security intent into native controls. By joining AWS Security Hub Extended, Native is helping customers move past the 'finding' phase and into a state where security is baked into the foundation of every workload.

This is particularly crucial in the age of AI. As companies rush to deploy new AI models and services, the risk of data leakage or unauthorized access skyrockets. Native’s role in this ecosystem allows for the enforcement of strict data perimeter controls and AI guardrails. This ensures that data access and movement are governed at the infrastructure level, not just the application level.

What This Means for AWS Customers

So, what does this look like in practice for a security team managing hundreds of AWS accounts? Through Native's inclusion in AWS Security Hub Extended, teams can now operationalize built-in AWS controls more effectively. This integration allows users to:

Proactive Guardrails Across the Board

One of the biggest headaches for cloud architects is consistency. How do you ensure that the same security rules apply to a production environment in the US as they do to a dev environment in Europe? Native solves this by supporting consistent, infrastructure-level guardrails across all environments. It complements existing detection tools with proactive enforcement, ensuring that security outcomes are aligned across accounts, workloads, and services at a massive scale.

Bridging the Gap Between Intent and Action

Native acts as the central control plane. You define your security outcome once, and Native ensures it is enforced across your AWS environments. It effectively bridges the gap between what a security policy says and how the cloud infrastructure actually behaves. This isn't just about compliance; it's about real-world resilience.

For those ready to dive in, accessing Native is straightforward. AWS customers can find Native by logging into the AWS Security Hub console and selecting the Extended plan. From there, you can select Native from the partner solutions and follow the guided onboarding to get your environment configured.

About Native

Native isn't just another startup; it’s built by the same minds behind Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. They understand the DNA of cloud security better than most. While this news focuses on AWS, Native’s platform is built for the multi-cloud reality, offering the same level of secure-by-design architecture across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Backed by industry heavyweights like Ballistic Ventures and General Catalyst, Native is clearly positioning itself as the must-have control plane for the modern enterprise.