We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and Cloudify 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."It offers automated recommendations for security and policies, creating a landing zone and providing a list of policies."
"It provides centralized solutions for all AWS accounts in one place, customized to meet the organization's specific needs."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"The most significant benefit of Control Tower is its capability to align with our organization's standards."
"AWS Control Tower helps to save a lot of work and manage multiple accounts."
"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."
"Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"Extensible internal functions and plugins. Can implement custom plugins to fit your scenario. Python based plugins."
"Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds."
"You can use only what you need. You can remove certain Cloudify functions from the framework to create a "minified" version of what you need. This might only consist of the messaging delivery system, and the orchestration functions."
"TOSCA model allows modeling the application rather than the automation. It is a machine-readable representation of the application and its infrastructure, which can be used for other things too, not just for the orchestration (e.g. enterprise architecture big picture, who connects to whom)."
"The solution includes the option to run background scripts and processes from a connected API."
"Valuable features are auto-scaling and load balancing."
"Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements. It really works well there, and it fits the best. They have a standardized markup that's based on TOSCA, which is a standard. I like the fact that they're standards-based. Their solution works extremely well if you have the talent and the manpower to write TOSCA descriptors to deploy and interchange services or to automate the configuration and turn up of services."
"Cloudify provides the infrastructure-as-code, as well as operational action capabilities (orchestrated startups or upgrades, and more)."
"It could be improved by having a more intuitive graphical interface. It could also include other coding languages like PowerShell and Python, as it would be beneficial for DevOps recommendations."
"The tool's setup is very technical. Its pricing can be cheaper."
"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."
"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."
"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."
"The sole drawback is its restriction to enable only one Control Tower."
"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."
"The solution's stability could be improved."
"Certainly the UI could use some intensive work, but nevertheless, overall, it’s a complete product with its 3.4 version and much better features are available with 4.0."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"It lacked the user interface for multitenancy and basic platform management tasks. It is a leader in the niche area that they like to perform in, but it only does about 30% of top-tier advanced functions of platform management. It doesn't meet about 70% of what you need to manage a private cloud platform."
"The solution is a bit of a headache because mistakes happen in the blueprint every time we deploy and they require modifications."
"Unlike the Docker environment, Cloudify takes time for configuration and its learning curve."
"Error handling could be improved; GUI is lacking with respect to user privileges and connectivity."
"Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while Cloudify is ranked 20th in Cloud Management with 12 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, while Cloudify is rated 8.0. 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 Cloudify writes "Works very well for advanced service chaining requirements and has extremely advanced engineers for support". AWS Control Tower is most compared with AWS Trusted Advisor, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation, Morpheus and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, whereas Cloudify is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack, OpenNebula and Scalr. See our AWS Control Tower vs. Cloudify report.
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