We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and vCloud Director 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."Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."
"It provides centralized solutions for all AWS accounts in one place, customized to meet the organization's specific needs."
"There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"It has helped us with user segmentation and QA."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"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."
"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The process of closing an AWS account using Control Tower needs improvements to simplify it, especially when managing multiple accounts."
"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."
"The solution's stability could be improved."
"It would be great if Microsoft and VMware come together and become a common tool."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
"It would be beneficial if some features were built into the platform rather than requiring integration with multiple products, reducing complexity and licensing concerns."
"In version 6.7, compatibility to migrate VMs from a vCenter to vCloud Director had a problem. However, this has been solved in the newest version."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, while vCloud Director 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". AWS Control Tower is most compared with AWS Trusted Advisor, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation and Morpheus, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our AWS Control Tower vs. vCloud Director report.
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