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."With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."
"The solution's initial setup was easy for me."
"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."
"It is incredibly user-friendly and functions seamlessly."
"It provides centralized solutions for all AWS accounts in one place, customized to meet the organization's specific needs."
"The most significant benefit of Control Tower is its capability to align with our organization's standards."
"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."
"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 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 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 tool's setup is very technical. Its pricing can be cheaper."
"The process of closing an AWS account using Control Tower needs improvements to simplify it, especially when managing multiple accounts."
"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."
"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."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
"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."
"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 22nd in Cloud Management with 4 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, 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 Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth. See our AWS Control Tower vs. AWS Trusted Advisor report.
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