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AWS Control Tower vs Cloudify comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Control Tower
Ranking in Cloud Management
23rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cloudify
Ranking in Cloud Management
39th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of AWS Control Tower is 1.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudify is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Control Tower1.4%
Cloudify1.4%
Other97.2%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Chukwudi Uzoma - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of IT, Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Centralized guardrails have streamlined multi-account governance and accelerated secure onboarding
I rely on the guardrails because they help enforce security and compliance standards without requiring extensive custom development. AWS Control Tower provides tremendous value by simplifying multi-account governance and reducing operational complexity. The reason I do not give it a 10 is that larger enterprises sometimes require more flexibility and customization than the service currently provides. While AWS Control Tower is not primarily an AI-driven service, its governance and security capabilities are among its strongest features, as the combination of guardrails, centralized governance, AWS Organizations integration, and automated compliance monitoring helps AWS organizations establish a secure foundation for AWS adoption. I find AWS Control Tower's governance and compliance output highly reliable, as the service accurately reports guardrail compliance status, account enrollment status, and governance posture, providing trustworthy information for operational and audit purposes. You should start with a clear account strategy, as the design architecture for your organization must be clear. Different organizational units, security requirements, logging strategy, and account lifecycle processes should be clear upfront. AWS Control Tower delivers the most value when implemented as the foundation of a well-planned multi-account architecture. I would also recommend adopting AWS Control Tower early in your cloud journey because it is easier to establish governance from the beginning rather than to try to retrofit governance into a large existing environment later. I rate this solution nine out of ten.
Ullas Soman - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Consultant at Coforge Growth Agency
Great at enabling a single platform to communicate with an entire infrastructure.
The best feature of Cloudify is that it enables a single platform to communicate with the DB, with applications, and with the entire infrastructure. The product is very stable and has a lot of troubleshooting and analytical features. It's easy to understand and user-friendly. If you want to uninstall something, it's very easy to have the logic created in Cloudify. Other solutions don't have this. For example, if you wanted to decommission after three or four years, rather than going for a full decommission, it's possible to unallocate a particular space. If you want to allocate storage for a new build, it's very easy to deploy, uninstall and release some storage from the TOSCA.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"AWS Control Tower provides tremendous value by simplifying multi-account governance and reducing operational complexity."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."
"Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds."
"Cloudify provides a good framework that you can build on to provide custom solutions for an organization."
"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."
"No need to change the existing application code base."
"It's easy to create a cloud server, such as Linux with JBoss or WebSphere, which is good for continuous deployment."
"Extensible internal functions and plugins. Can implement custom plugins to fit your scenario. Python based plugins."
"The best feature of Cloudify is that it enables a single platform to communicate with the DB, with applications, and with the entire infrastructure."
"Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements; it really works well there, and it fits the best."
 

Cons

"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 product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."
"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."
"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."
"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."
"There aren't any additional features that I feel are missing. However, it's worth noting that Control Tower seems to function as a layer utilizing standard AWS products in the background. Occasionally, the interface may appear less streamlined, with changes in layout based on the underlying products being used. While this doesn't impact functionality, having a more standardized user interface, irrespective of the background products, could enhance the user experience."
"The solution's stability could be improved."
"The sole drawback is its restriction to enable only one Control Tower."
"Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring."
"It lacked the user interface for multitenancy and basic platform management tasks."
"More of the debug functionality is needed; hopefully, we can pause during the server building process."
"The solution could be improved with respect to error handling. If we want to troubleshoot further and deep dive, we don't have access to admin privileges to extract those errors."
"Error handling could be improved; GUI is lacking with respect to user privileges and connectivity."
"Cloudify is not a turn-key solution, nor designed as such."
"Unlike the Docker environment, Cloudify takes time for configuration and its learning curve."
"I did encounter any issues with scalability."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It operates on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning we are charged only for the services we actively use within it."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."
"It is expensive but it is an investment in my opinion."
"The pricing is efficient, not overly expensive but also not very cheap."
"It is cost-effective and the associated cost is quite minimal."
"I believe it's free of charge or comes at a very low cost. It's an additional feature. Even if there is a fee, it's minimal. AWS seems to assist customers in gaining a comprehensive view of their security setups within AWS. Using Control Tower is highly recommended, especially as your company grows and involves Active Directory, various departments, and different architectural aspects. It becomes more advisable to leverage Control Tower rather than managing these aspects manually, especially for larger organizations."
"The solution is free."
"The pricing structure is closely intertwined with the specifics of your environment and the billing strategy you employ."
"I wasn't involved in the pricing of it because we were just doing prototype work with it, but I was told by the upper management team that it was quite expensive. That was another reason we switched to Morpheus."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Construction Company
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Control Tower?
Control Tower within the AWS Organization does not have a charge. It is free and does not incur additional charges.
What needs improvement with AWS Control Tower?
I would like to see greater customization and flexibility for the landing zone, easier integration with existing enterprise environments, more advanced reporting and governance dashboards, and expa...
What is your primary use case for AWS Control Tower?
My primary use case for AWS Control Tower is multi-account governance, as it provides a standardized landing zone that allows us to provision accounts consistently, enforce security guardrails, cen...
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Proximus Partner Communications (Israel) VMware NTT Data Metaswitch Spirent Communications Lumina Networks Atos Fortinet
Find out what your peers are saying about AWS Control Tower vs. Cloudify and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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