Cloud Security Billing, Simplified: Introducing the Defender Workload Unit

danielacardon

Microsoft

Oct 20, 2026

Security should be simple to understand, including its costs.

That's the thinking behind an upcoming improvement to Microsoft Defender for Cloud: the Defender Workload Unit, or DWU. It's a new billing model and product experience that translates workload-specif...

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application platform (CNAPP) that offers security and compliance from code to runtime, enhanced by AI, for hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Cloud Security Billing, Simplified: Introducing the Defender Workload Unit

Security should be simple to understand, including its costs.