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AWS Organizations vs RSA Archer comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

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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
6th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
RSA Archer
Ranking in IT Governance
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
GRC (1st), IT Vendor Risk Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Governance category, the mindshare of AWS Organizations is 2.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RSA Archer is 20.5%, down from 29.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RSA Archer20.5%
AWS Organizations2.8%
Other76.7%
IT Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Abiola Olaibi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer
Centralized governance has strengthened compliance and now supports secure multi-account growth
The best features that AWS Organizations offers include service control policies because they help me to affect comprehensive governance, especially with the organizational units for scalability and centralized billing and account management. It provides me with the tools I need for effective governance, ensuring compliance across the entire enterprise, particularly with implementing guardrails with the service control policies. With service control policies, I'm able to enforce preventative guardrails, automatically ensuring compliance and mitigating risk in my daily work. Centralized billing has given me significant financial management control with a unified cost view. In my various projects, service control policies have helped prevent non-compliant deployments by restricting specific AWS regions or prohibiting service access. In addition, the service control policies have greatly helped me maintain security and regulatory standards while implementing centralized billing.
CJ
Information Security Specialist at Dubai Health Authority
Centralized management strengthens compliance with good look and feel
From my perspective as a customer and end user, Archer has an impressive look and feel, but the most adaptive feature is its ease of configuration which helps to enhance our process according to our maturity. It's more about our organization getting centralized with an integrated approach that focuses on risk governance and compliance. When can provide a detailed dashboards to management with the details of risks from top-down or bottom-up prioritizing actions based on its criticality or necessity. This allows us to show end users and management where the issues lie and effectively demonstrate accountability and visibility in compliance.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Centralized billing has given me significant financial management control with a unified cost view."
"The main feature of AWS Organizations that I find valuable is the management of multiple accounts."
"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."
"Archer allows us to define the progress of the organization's processes and helps build the right cyclic process and improve the current structure."
"In two to three months, even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"The part I liked about Archer was the risk assessment for deficiencies and being able to use it there."
"RSA is a very rich application. I like its adaptive suggestion, where based on your users and the class of data, it can actually recommend you the proper control to choose. For example, we have been using PCI DSS as an NIST. So based on application feedback, it will provide you with a suggestion on which control objective needs to be set. Based on that, you can make a decision—you don't need to take the suggestion, but you can customize that particular provided suggestion. RSA Archer's workflow is also good, in terms of process automation."
"The Advance Workflow feature simplifies things."
"Its ROI is quite high when you look at how long it takes for people to input stuff for compliance risk, vulnerability management, and threat management."
"RSA Archer is a good tool and I have found performing the application, ISMS, and TPRM assessments beneficial."
"Among the most valuable features of this solution is the easy implementation and the degree of automation that it offers."
 

Cons

"An option to bind a card or add a payment button would enhance the service."
"My personal experience indicates a need for context-aware service control policies that enforce strict security boundaries without stifling the need for innovation."
"There are some issues with the interface for version 6.5 but these may already be repaired and simplified in the new versions that have been released."
"The product is expensive."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"There is no inbuilt alert in Archer to let us know that a data feed has failed or did not run for different reasons. So, we don't even get to know that a feed has not run until somebody reports it to us. This has been a problem all the time. Data feeds have always been a big headache for us because there is no feature to let us know if a feed has not run or has failed. If Archer had a feature to send us an email notification when a feed has failed, it would've been very helpful. This is the reason why our users are slowly moving away to another platform. Some of the modules that I have been managing are being moved to ServiceNow. Next year, a lot of our modules will be moved from RSA Archer to ServiceNow, and the data feed issue has been one of the main reasons."
"GUI could be improved."
"The financial area of RSA Archer has room for improvement."
"The dashboard that is a part of the RSA Archer could be more aesthetic."
"I would like to have the ability to build and maintain an inventory of personal data processing activities and assets utilizing a purpose-built taxonomy and data structure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"At the higher end of the price scale, but provides better, more accessible functionality and customization than cheaper products."
"I am not 100% familiar with that, especially with their new model. I just know that the way they've licensed per user to scale is good."
"The price of the solution is very affordable."
"RSA Archer's price is justifiable and not as expensive, compared to ServiceNow. I have heard that the licensing for ServiceNow is much more expensive. I'm unaware whether there are any additional costs after licensing fees."
"As I am a developer and responsible for providing production support, I do not have personal knowledge of the pricing. However, my colleagues claim that it is very expensive in comparison with other tools."
"The initial purchase is cheap. You pay a nominal price to start then renew the license annually. You also must buy a license for each module. I'm not too fond of that aspect of the licensing model. You buy the elephant and then spend more money to feed the elephant."
"The pricing is okay. The licensing costs are very reasonable; it is very affordable to us."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise25
 

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 RSA Archer?
While it provides benefits in terms of security, the pricing is a bit higher than customers typically expect. It would be helpful if RSA Archer had the capability for two-way integration because, i...
What is your primary use case for RSA Archer?
Regarding the compliance, risk, and governance tools, I am comfortable discussing the tools in the GRC category. The specific module from ServiceNow is the ServiceNow Compliance, Risk, and Governan...
What advice do you have for others considering RSA Archer?
I have been in touch with about three companies who use RSA Archer actively in the compliance area. These companies use RSA Archer for nearly all purposes, including governance, internal risk, and ...
 

Also Known As

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Archer
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
T-Systems, Bridge Point, Equifax, First Data, Global Imaging Company, Manulife Financial
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