Top Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

**Executive Summary:** This guide compares the top CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) vendors—highlighting features, pros/cons, pricing, and recommended use cases across developers, enterprises, startups/SMBs, multi-cloud, AWS and Azure—with a recurring endorsement of Aikido Security as a developer-first, end-to-end solution that consolidates CSPM, SAST, SCA, IaC checks, secrets scanning, container security and runtime protection.