AWS Control Tower Reviews & Product Details

Since we work on multiple projects at the same time, ASW Control Tower helps us manage and keep track of all our projects in one place, under a single window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since it’s a single control tower, if the credentials are lost even once, it will affect all the projects over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A central control unit that stays on top of the organization, helping you create multiple zones or accounts that facilitate easy tracing and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not find any disks with this tool, it's very effective for AWS enable organizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For any organization it is such a best features to give variable access to the multiple accounts and control all of them from single point of control tower.

No messed up , no security breach just perfect for any organization security and role. To get compliant and support in organization we must choose this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configurations are difficult to put for different people , different role. To see and control exactly from the tower its definitely not easy for a Non Tech guy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used AWS Control Tower on many enterprise projects. Here is my taught aout it,

1 - Creating Multi-Account AWS Environment is very easy using AWS Control Tower.

2 - It used Organizations to govern all the AWS Accounts.

3 - It has Organization trails and it helps logs all the events on all the accounts associated with it.

4 - Has Security hub Dashboard which helps monitor AWS Accounts. It collects data from Inspector, Guard Duty, Macie, Firewall etc,

5 - It supports AWS Guard Duty, that is a threat detection system, which can monitor Route 53, Cloud Trail, VPC Flow logs, etc.

6 - It also supports Inspector, Usually used for Network and Host assessment.

7 - Easy to use and integrate and provides lots of control over AWS accounts, Has excellent AWS customer Support for all type of plans(Basic, Business, etc).

8 - It has a very good Documentation and community support which makes it easy to implement. It is one of the reason why it is widely used across various exterprise organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have very few to highlight from my experience using the tool,

1 - It has AWS Security Hub and it is limited to be enabled on one region on all accounts and time.

2 - You must stick with AWS for all your infrastructre (accounts). Which sometimes make is difficult for big organizations to decide for theie application.

3 - It is also unavailable on few regions like - Hyderabad, Jakarta and Osaka, Spain, Zurich.

4 - It supports only 10 concurrent operations and which makes it slow in-terms of provisioning/creation time.

I came across these difficulties so far nothing much to say about the problems in control tower Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its centralized way of supporting multiple accounts and getting summary at one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such. A bit complex for a newbie to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Govern and secure multi account AWS environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex architectures with complex design and other cloud environment are not included Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that everything is centralized and service control policies can be implemented quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Decommisioning landing zones can sometimes be challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can create and manage all subaccounts as one place. Customer support is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cannot use the same business support level to all sub accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We moved most of the on prem to cloud AWS, using control tower it helped us to anlyze requirement and upscale capacity accordingly no more waiting on vendors for deliverables Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I cannot think of any at the moment of course it's pricey, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

View policy-level summaries of your AWS environment. Automate ongoing policy management. Quickly setup and configure a new AWS environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It limit of 5 SCPs per OU applies to OUs. Existing OUs with over 300 accounts cannot be registered or re-registered in AWS Control Tower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.