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."There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."
"With Control Tower, there are ready-to-use automated templates available, simplifying the implementation of a centralized management solution."
"Security is the most valuable feature of Control Tower."
"The most significant benefit of Control Tower is its capability to align with our organization's standards."
"One of the standout advantages is the fine-grained control it offers in terms of permissions and privileges."
"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."
"AWS Control Tower helps to save a lot of work and manage multiple accounts."
"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."
"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."
"OpenNebula is lightweight, stable, and easy to customize."
"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."
"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."
"It is quite easy to deploy."
"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 tool's setup is very technical. Its pricing can be cheaper."
"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 integration with other AWS functions has room for improvement."
"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."
"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."
"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."
"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."
"They should add more features like object storage."
"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."
"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."
"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."
"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."
"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."
"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."
AWS Control Tower is ranked 11th in Cloud Management with 15 reviews while OpenNebula is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 14 reviews. AWS Control Tower is rated 8.2, 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, Morpheus and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, 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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