AWS Audit Manager alternatives, now that it is closed to new accounts

What changed

• New customers can no longer enable AWS Audit Manager as of April 30, 2026.
• Existing customers can keep using it in the accounts and Regions where it is already set up, including creating new assessments, but cannot add new accounts or Regions.
• AWS will not add new features, new frameworks, new framework versions or new Regions.
• AWS points customers to AWS Config conformance packs and the Config resource compliance dashboard, and names partner options including Vanta and Drata.

What Audit Manager did, and what it never did

Audit Manager collected evidence from your AWS accounts and organized it against framework controls, so you could hand an auditor an assessment report. It never fixed anything: AWS’s own comparison lists remediation of non-compliant resources as not supported. And it only ever saw AWS, while a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit also covers identity, code, policies and people.

Your options, side by side

Before you switch: keep your evidence

• Export the assessment reports your auditor has already relied on, so the audit trail for past periods stays intact.
• Use Evidence Finder to export the evidence you need before you disable the service.
• Read AWS’s guide to disabling Audit Manager before you do it, so you know how your data is handled.
• Run the replacement alongside Audit Manager for one cycle so there is no gap in the record.

Is there an Azure equivalent?

The closest Microsoft tools are Purview Compliance Manager, which scores your Microsoft 365 environment, and the regulatory compliance dashboard in Defender for Cloud, which maps Azure Policy results to standards. Neither runs an external audit end to end. The guide to Vanta alternatives for Azure, linked below, compares the options.