Cold spray (CS) is a process in which solid powders are accelerated to high velocities toward a substrate, where they impact and undergo extreme plastic deformation, leading to solid-state bonding. Successive particle impact leads to the buildup of a dense coating. Different materials such as metals, ceramics, composites, and polymers can be deposited by this process, enabling a wide range of applications. Cold spray as a surface modifying technique has long been applied to control fatigue, wear, and corrosion of materials. Low porosity, low oxygen contents and inclusions, low residual stress and retention of original microstructure make cold sprayed coating a good candidate for material protective layer in corrosive environments. For these reasons, understanding of corrosion behavior, related to structural details such as grain size, defects, and porosity, as well as residual stress, would be an important contribution.In this work, cold sprayed Aluminum samples were produced using different process variations. Defect structure was systematically explored, and through etching studies, thermodynamic modeling and FEM, the effect of these variations was analyzed for corrosion behavior. Results were compared to work in the literature, and new arguments for behavior of CS materials in corrosive environments were developed.