We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and VMware Aria Operations 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."
"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"The solution's initial setup was easy for me."
"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."
"AWS Control Tower helps to save a lot of work and manage multiple accounts."
"Its job automation features and reporting capabilities are unique and valuable."
"I'd like to see the streamlining of more wizards, more tasks that are canned. And it would also be good to see some more features around building the Blueprints, just to make it a little easier."
"It gives me more insight on issues like: Do we need to add more hardware to the clusters; when disks are low, to add more disk space. It's a preventive type of maintenance."
"It's valuable because it helps us look at our performance statistics for our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the insight into real-time performance."
"What we do, as a whole for our group... is storage virtualization and the compute side. This product brings all those pieces into one interface and now we can actually correlate data between them."
"They keep improving and updating their apps over time."
"The most valuable feature is performance monitoring. It's much easier to show problems to users. If someone comes and says, “My server is slow,” I can show them exactly what's happening with the server over time and at that exact moment as well."
"The solution's stability could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The tool's setup is very technical. Its pricing can be cheaper."
"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."
"The solution must provide better training options to help us make the most of the tool."
"I would like more application dashboards to be available."
"Where the product could improve would be the UI."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Sometimes what a customer sees as a need for improvement could be incorrect sizing or a result of a specific deployment. So usually, the things we want are a more frequent sampling of the various metrics and the like."
"There were early kinks in the some of the virtual appliances as we rolled them out."
"In some respects, the UI is pretty stale. It has been that way from the beginning. Some easier ways to create custom dashboards for management, versus the tech guys, versus administrators, that would be helpful."
"It was not intuitive and user-friendly in the versions leading up to 6.5."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 360 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". AWS Control Tower is most compared with AWS Trusted Advisor, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation and Morpheus, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Nutanix Prism and Veeam ONE. See our AWS Control Tower vs. VMware Aria Operations report.
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