We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and AWS Trusted Advisor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS Control Tower helps to save a lot of work and manage multiple accounts."
"Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"One of the standout advantages is the fine-grained control it offers in terms of permissions and privileges."
"It offers automated recommendations for security and policies, creating a landing zone and providing a list of policies."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."
"The most intriguing feature is the automatic generation of user accounts. Leveraging Active Directory and global company settings, AWS Cloud Tower enables the creation of AWS user accounts based on job descriptions in Active Directory. This establishes a direct correlation between the user's name, job definition, and the corresponding rules applied to each account."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"The cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been great."
"The cost optimization features are valuable."
"The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free."
"AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost."
"The solution's stability could be improved."
"The sole drawback is its restriction to enable only one Control Tower."
"It is essential to clarify that this isn't necessarily a drawback of the service, but having a clear and concise set of predefined guidelines from AWS for moving existing accounts under AWS Control Tower would be highly beneficial as it would simplify the process and make it more user-friendly."
"By making APIs and organizational units more centralized, it would be simpler to pinpoint the source of issues in case of a breach and would ultimately benefit everyone involved."
"AWS Control Tower should improve its fast execution. It also needs more tools for triggering and monitoring AWS services. AWS Control Tower needs more tracking as well."
"The integration with other AWS functions has room for improvement."
"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."
"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."
"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."
"For EC2 instances, we need to install the AWS CloudWatch agent to get the memory metric because we don't have a by-default memory utilization graph on cost optimization."
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while AWS Trusted Advisor is ranked 22nd in Cloud Management with 4 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, while AWS Trusted Advisor is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Control Tower writes "A robust protection for efficient cloud governance and security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Trusted Advisor writes "A stable and easy-to-use product that provides excellent cost optimization features and technical support". AWS Control Tower is most compared with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation, Morpheus and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, whereas AWS Trusted Advisor is most compared with CloudCheckr , IBM Turbonomic and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth. See our AWS Control Tower vs. AWS Trusted Advisor report.
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