We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and CloudStack 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."The solution's initial setup was easy for me."
"AWS Control Tower helps to save a lot of work and manage multiple accounts."
"There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."
"The most significant benefit of Control Tower is its capability to align with our organization's standards."
"Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"Security is the most valuable feature of Control Tower."
"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."
"I liked the separation of the isolated network versus the shared network."
"Key features include stability, centralized management design that scales well, and transparent interoperability with different hypervisors and manufacturers.."
"It works, and pretty much always has. Reliability and support for enterprise features, with a multi-tenant interface, makes CloudStack a very compelling solution."
"The API with CloudStack made integration into various external facing web applications simple enough."
"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."
"Multiple types of hypervisor support, multi-zone support, and VPC are great valuable features."
"CloudStack supports every operating system that supports hypervisors, which makes the product more attractive, compared to vCloud Director or Azure."
"CloudStack is simple to stand up and get off the ground in a hurry. Its centralized design allows for easier troubleshooting when compared to OpenStack. Out of the box, it’s very well suited for white labeling and IaaS."
"The integration with other AWS functions has room for improvement."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."
"The tool's setup is very technical. Its pricing can be cheaper."
"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 process of closing an AWS account using Control Tower needs improvements to simplify it, especially when managing multiple accounts."
"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."
"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."
"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."
"Accounts, domains, and user accounts are set up with public cloud in mind, not private."
"The main reason why we started looking for another solution: backups, replication, HA, and dependency on secondary storage. CS is quite sensitive for infrastructure, and any kind of network disruption between CS and secondary storage leads to VM hanging."
"From time to time there is a bug in calculating limits of resources for customer domain/account. Maybe it’s a problem with 4.9.2."
"The user can't upload SSH keys from the UI. We have to use the API for this, and it is not always convenient."
"I would like to see support for native VLAN, and fault-tolerance."
"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."
"The numerous, multi-layered drill-down menus make it difficult to find one simple knob to turn."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while CloudStack is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 29 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, while CloudStack 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 CloudStack writes "A solution that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, scalability, and stability". AWS Control Tower is most compared with AWS Trusted Advisor, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation and Morpheus, whereas CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, vCloud Director, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cloudify. See our AWS Control Tower vs. CloudStack report.
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