We performed a comparison between AWS Control Tower and OpenNebula 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 offers automated recommendations for security and policies, creating a landing zone and providing a list of policies."
"One of the standout advantages is the fine-grained control it offers in terms of permissions and privileges."
"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."
"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."
"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."
"The most significant benefit of Control Tower is its capability to align with our organization's standards."
"With a single click, we could set things up and initiate them."
"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."
"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."
"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."
"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."
"The sole drawback is its restriction to enable only one Control Tower."
"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."
"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."
"They should add more features like object storage."
"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"They have been saying for the past two and a half years that they would develop a feature to hot-add RAM and CPU, but it does not work."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"There are small things that are hard. For example, making sure that it is going to be installable on public clouds."
"An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while OpenNebula is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.6, while OpenNebula is rated 8.2. 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 OpenNebula writes "Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support". AWS Control Tower is most compared with AWS Trusted Advisor, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, VMware Aria Automation and Morpheus, whereas OpenNebula is most compared with CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), vCloud Director and VMware Aria Operations. See our AWS Control Tower vs. OpenNebula report.
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