CrowdStrike-AWS Security Partnership: 5 Latest Moves

The two industry giants are doubling down on areas including AI security and incident response as part of a deepening collaboration.

CrowdStrike and Amazon Web Services are doubling down on key cybersecurity initiatives such as AI security and incident response as part of a deepening collaboration between the two industry giants, executives told CRN.

The expanding CrowdStrike-AWS partnership signals where the companies are looking to go next with both customers and the channel, with partners able to capture major security opportunities through teaming with the two companies, executives said.

With CrowdStrike generating more than $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales in 2024 alone—the first cloud-native security ISV to achieve the feat in a single year—there’s no question that “this relationship works” and is strongly resonating with partners and customers, said Hart Rossman, vice president for global services security at AWS.

Crucially, that’s continuing to be the case when it comes to newer areas such as providing security that can enable AI adoption, Rossman told CRN.

“When we’ve got a partner like CrowdStrike, we’re making AI security simple,” he said. “We’re making that purchase decision simple. [Together] we help customers build, test, deploy and securely operate AI workloads right in their AWS environment—the entire life cycle.”

Ultimately, “CrowdStrike delivers security that’s scalable and proven,” Rossman said. “It’s cloud-native. They’ve built on AWS. And so it makes it easy for our customers and partners to succeed.”

Currently, CrowdStrike has more than 30 different integrations with AWS-native services, according to CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard.

“So whatever program they have, whatever new innovation they’re doing, we’re definitely a part of it,” Bernard said.

What follows are the key details on five of the latest moves in the CrowdStrike-AWS partnership.

CrowdStrike MCP Server On AWS Marketplace

In July, CrowdStrike announced it’s debuting an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for its Falcon cybersecurity platform, falcon-mcp, as part of the newly introduced AI Agents and Tools category within the AWS Marketplace.

The falcon-mcp server, initially available through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as a preview, aims to simplify the deployment of agentic workflows through offering easier access to data within CrowdStrike Falcon.

“I think this is really the next generation of APIs—it’s where that whole market is going,” Bernard said. “For us, MCP supercharges feedback between different products and how workflows work.”

Ultimately, “I think it just accelerates the user experience and accelerates what an enterprise is able to derive from the technology,” he told CRN.

While there’s no doubt that it’s early days for MCP technology, the promise is huge for cybersecurity—especially when it’s being leveraged by a vendor with a track record like CrowdStrike, Rossman said.

“For security teams, it’s transformational,” he said. “When they have access to, for example, the falcon-mcp, it gives them a whole suite of capabilities that they don’t typically have in the SOC.”

Giving falcon-mcp to a security analyst “turns them into a security engineer,” Rossman said. “It goes way beyond the analytic functions they had in the past and becomes a real force multiplier for their ability to proactively protect and then automatically respond to any escalating issue.”

CrowdStrike AI Red Team Services On AWS Marketplace

Likewise, CrowdStrike also said in July that it has added its AI Red Team Services offering to the AWS Marketplace’s AI Agents and Tools category.

The offering provides a comprehensive assessment of the security of an organization’s AI systems, including through the identification of high-risk misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, according to CrowdStrike.

The move to bring CrowdStrike’s AI security offerings to the AWS Marketplace is already gaining traction with customers and partners, Rossman said.

In particular, highlighting AI agents and tools in the AWS Marketplace “has just been phenomenal and has given a particular lift to security partners like CrowdStrike,” he said. Being able to offer their Falcon MCP, their AI Red Team and Charlotte is just super compelling for customers and allows tighter integration with services like SageMaker and Bedrock and other AI services outside the marketplace.”

Cyber Insurance Collaboration With Resilience

CrowdStrike and AWS also announced in July that they are teaming up with Resilience, a provider of cyber insurance and risk management.

The collaboration is aimed at helping organizations to improve their coverage terms for cyber insurance, the companies said.

This is accomplished by Resilience through using its Threatonomics platform to ingest telemetry data from AWS and CrowdStrike services, ultimately helping to achieve better coverage terms for cyber insurance by demonstrating reduced cyber risk, according to the companies.

Falcon For AWS Security Incident Response

In June, CrowdStrike unveiled the launch of its new Falcon for AWS Security Incident Response offering.

The collaboration enables preferred rates for CrowdStrike Falcon products via the AWS Marketplace for AWS Security Incident Response customers, the companies said.

For customers and partners, the initiative is “really streamlining your access to bespoke cybersecurity services under the umbrella of AWS, and having that be with CrowdStrike,” Bernard said.

AWS-CrowdStrike Startup Accelerator

The two companies have also partnered on supporting the next generation of security innovators through running the AWS and CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator for the past two years.

In February, the second class of startups were chosen for the accelerator, with 36 AI and cloud security startups selected. This year’s accelerator also involved a collaboration with the Nvidia Inception program.

In May, Terra Security—which offers continuous penetration testing for web applications using agentic AI—was named the winner of the 2025 competition.