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AWS Organizations vs MetricStream comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

AWS Organizations
Ranking in IT Governance
7th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MetricStream
Ranking in IT Governance
2nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Continuous Controls Monitoring (2nd), GRC (2nd), IT Vendor Risk Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Governance category, the mindshare of AWS Organizations is 2.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MetricStream is 15.3%, down from 23.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MetricStream15.3%
AWS Organizations2.3%
Other82.4%
IT Governance
 

Featured Reviews

MuhammadAzhar Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
Manages multiple accounts efficiently with streamlined billing and centralized oversight
The main feature of AWS Organizations that I find valuable is the management of multiple accounts. I can manage billing, access, and security for all accounts from a single point instead of managing them separately. It provides a single pane of glass for oversight. Additionally, its consolidated billing feature streamlines customer financial workflows. Since it is a free service, it is cost-effective for managing multiple accounts.
CP
Senior GRC Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Automated workflows have reduced manual follow-ups and improve third-party risk oversight
MetricStream's best features include its ease of use, compliance program, TPRM, audit management, and implementation effort. It effectively handles large data volumes and provides good workflow capabilities with decent reporting flexibility and a better user interface. MetricStream impacts the organization by reducing follow-ups through reminder settings during questionnaire assignments. It automatically sends reminders based on set reminders, fostering trust when configured with the organization's email domain. Metrics improvements like operational efficiency, centralized GRC management, enhanced risk visibility, streamlined compliance, reduced manual efforts, enhanced third-party risk monitoring, improved decision-making with real-time dashboards, and risk analytics follow from automated workflows and issue tracking.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The main feature of AWS Organizations that I find valuable is the management of multiple accounts, as I can manage billing, access, and security for all accounts from a single point instead of managing them separately, and it provides a single pane of glass for oversight while its consolidated billing feature streamlines customer financial workflows and, being a free service, is cost-effective for managing multiple accounts."
"The main feature of AWS Organizations that I find valuable is the management of multiple accounts."
"Centralizing those processes has reduced errors and made audits faster while improving collaboration, as reviewers can log in at any point to see pending actions and who is responsible for them without the confusion of shared Excel sheets."
"MetricStream's best features include its ease of use, compliance program, TPRM, audit management, and implementation effort, and it delivers strong ROI as an enterprise-wide GRC platform with value realized through automation, reduced compliance effort, improved visibility, and efficient auditing."
"The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers."
"MetricStream positively impacts our organization significantly by saving costs and enhancing our risk and compliance maturity."
"MetricStream was truly beneficial, easing the lives of everyone, including auditors and auditees, reinforcing its overall usefulness."
"MetricStream definitely impacts my organization positively because it is very useful and offers low-code utilities to configure all components, allowing team members to complete tasks quickly."
"For our client, MetricStream made the audits incredibly efficient, and in real time, I could provide the status of the audit to stakeholders, indicating which controls had deviations, which control was pending, and who it was pending on."
"Key features are usability and ease of configuration, and it allows us to have all the information in a single place and provide real-time indicators and information for our executives."
 

Cons

"An option to bind a card or add a payment button would enhance the service."
"MetricStream is stable, but it is not 100% stable. It is a good product, yet I experience more data losses and flow control issues as data volume increases."
"From my standpoint, MetricStream is a bit costly. We spend a significant amount of money for the product, and I cannot disclose specifics due to confidentiality."
"We would like to have more dashboards and reports, such as geographical and trend reports in the next version. Also, an improvement in the mobile version would be helpful."
"Currently, I believe MetricStream has sufficient functionality, but for the Indian banking sector, the UI and overall complexity could be improved, as many Indian banks require a simplified UI."
"MetricStream at that point did not have a template, and I had to build the entire SOX 404 IT general controls testing framework myself."
"The support part is terrible, rating about one out of ten."
"The implementation speed is not up to the mark."
"MetricStream is a very costly application; we cannot save money."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They are flexible in terms of customers' needs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
15%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AWS Organizations?
An option to bind a card or add a payment button would enhance the service. It would allow customers like me to easily make payments instead of navigating through individual accounts.
What is your primary use case for AWS Organizations?
I use AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. It is similar to SSO. The main difference is that I use JamCloud for sign-in. AWS Organizations acts like a parent account with multiple child a...
What advice do you have for others considering AWS Organizations?
For users like me with larger customer bases who have multiple accounts and want to streamline their billing and management from a single account, AWS Organizations is a good solution. Overall, I r...
What needs improvement with MetricStream?
I find MetricStream not user-friendly because while using it, it is very critical. It is not designed as a user-friendly app. We cannot understand the Indian English also. MetricStream needs to be ...
What is your primary use case for MetricStream?
My main use case for MetricStream involves the change control module, deviation module, and investigation modules. In the pharmaceutical organization I work in, for any change in procedure, we can ...
What advice do you have for others considering MetricStream?
My advice to others looking into using MetricStream is that it is not a user-friendly application. I would rate MetricStream a three out of ten because it was not troubleshooting the issue. Due to ...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, ACCO Brands Corporation, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, AIB International, Associated Banc-Corp, BAE Systems, Barclaycard, Dell Inc, DIRECTV, Energizer, Fresenius Kabi, Hasbro, Goodyear, HudsonCity Savings Bank, Infigen Energy, Kaydon, Leroy Merlin, Mountry Financial Corp., Nicholas Piramal, Pepco, Pfizer, Societe Generale, Whitney Bank
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