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."There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."
"Security is the most valuable feature of Control Tower."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"Compliance is the most valuable feature."
"The solution's initial setup was easy for me."
"It provides centralized solutions for all AWS accounts in one place, customized to meet the organization's specific needs."
"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."
"The cost optimization features are valuable."
"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."
"AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost."
"The cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been great."
"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."
"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."
"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."
"The process of closing an AWS account using Control Tower needs improvements to simplify it, especially when managing multiple accounts."
"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."
"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."
"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
"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."
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics."
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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