AWS Control Tower vs SkyKick Cloud Manager comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SkyKick are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.6, while SkyKick is ranked #49. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.4% mindshare in CM, compared to SkyKick’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SkyKick users who would recommend it.

AWS Control Tower

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94% willing to recommend

SkyKick Cloud Manager

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Control Tower

Ranking in Cloud Management

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SkyKick Cloud Manager

Ranking in Cloud Management

49th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of AWS Control Tower is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SkyKick Cloud Manager is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AWS Control Tower	1.4%
SkyKick Cloud Manager	0.3%
Other	98.3%

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Unified security management ensures comprehensive compliance for account safety

Control Tower offers many valuable features for managing all account security. I can manage user security and user IAM, firewall, and other security-related tasks via Control Tower. The unified security management is a crucial aspect, and whenever an AWS organization is used, Control Tower is typically included to ensure comprehensive compliance fulfillment.

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reviewer2014029

Owner

Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features

The solution works really well and is very easy to use. It's possible to set up the solution in-house without integrators. The solution is stable. It can scale well. Technical support has been good. The solution is robust and offers great features that other options do not have. It has reasonable pricing.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"AWS Control Tower is a tool specifically designed for multi-account management. It offers the advantage of highly granular management."

"It offers automated recommendations for security and policies, creating a landing zone and providing a list of policies."

"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."

"There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."

"Control Tower offers many valuable features for managing all account security."

"The most significant benefit of Control Tower is its capability to align with our organization's standards."

"One of the standout advantages is the fine-grained control it offers in terms of permissions and privileges."

"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."

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"Technical support has been good."

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."

"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."

"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The solution's stability could be improved."

"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."

"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."

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"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is free."

"It is expensive but it is an investment in my opinion."

"The pay-as-you-go model ensures you're only charged for what you use, which offers great flexibility for different types of companies."

"The pricing is efficient, not overly expensive but also not very cheap."

"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."

"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."

"The cost is reasonable, but there are opportunities for improvement in terms of pricing for larger enterprises."

"The pricing structure is closely intertwined with the specifics of your environment and the billing strategy you employ."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Educational Organization

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Control Tower?

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...

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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.

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What needs improvement with AWS Control Tower?

I believe AWS Control Tower could be improved. I compare it with Huawei Cloud's enterprise project, which is a similar concept but different implementation. In Huawei Cloud, you partition in one si...

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Overview

AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.

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SkyKick is a new kind of migration application that makes it fast, safe, and easy to move small and medium businesses to Office 365. SkyKick’s Application Suite is a cloud based solution consisting of three products that work together to help plan, move, and setup the migration to Office 365.

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