We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and AWS Trusted Advisor 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 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."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"One of the standout advantages is the fine-grained control it offers in terms of permissions and privileges."
"It offers automated recommendations for security and policies, creating a landing zone and providing a list of policies."
"Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."
"The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free."
"The cost optimization features are valuable."
"The cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been great."
"AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost."
"The process of closing an AWS account using Control Tower needs improvements to simplify it, especially when managing multiple accounts."
"The integration with other AWS functions has room for improvement."
"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."
"The tool's setup is very technical. Its pricing can be cheaper."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's stability could be improved."
"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics."
"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."
"For EC2 instances, we need to install the AWS CloudWatch agent to get the memory metric because we don't have a by-default memory utilization graph on cost optimization."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while AWS Trusted Advisor is ranked 20th in Cloud Management with 4 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.6, while AWS Trusted Advisor is rated 8.6. 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 AWS Trusted Advisor writes "A stable and easy-to-use product that provides excellent cost optimization features and technical support". AWS Control Tower is most compared with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation and Morpheus, whereas AWS Trusted Advisor is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, CloudCheckr and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. See our AWS Control Tower vs. AWS Trusted Advisor report.
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