AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) Reviews & Product Details

AWS Resource Access Manager is a service that enables you to securely share your AWS resources across multiple AWS accounts or within your AWS Organization. By allowing centralized creation and management of resources, RAM eliminates the need to duplicate resources in each account, thereby reducing operational overhead and costs. It leverages existing AWS Identity and Access Management policies and Service Control Policies to govern access, ensuring consistent security and compliance across shared resources. Key Features and Functionality: - Simplified Resource Sharing: Easily share resources such as Amazon VPC subnets, AWS Transit Gateways, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver rules across AWS accounts without duplication. - Centralized Management: Manage shared resources from a central account, streamlining operations and maintaining consistent configurations. - Fine-Grained Permissions: Utilize AWS-managed and customer-managed permissions to grant precise access rights, adhering to the principle of least privilege. - Integration with AWS Organizations: Share resources seamlessly within your AWS Organization or Organizational Units , enhancing collaboration and resource utilization. - Comprehensive Visibility: Monitor shared resources and access activities through integration with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail, ensuring transparency and auditability. Primary Value and Problem Solved: AWS RAM addresses the challenges of managing and sharing resources in multi-account AWS environments. By enabling centralized resource creation and secure sharing, it reduces the need for redundant resources, thereby lowering costs and operational complexity. The service ensures that access controls are consistently applied across shared resources, enhancing security and compliance. Additionally, RAM's integration with AWS Organizations and IAM allows for streamlined governance and management, facilitating efficient collaboration across teams and accounts.

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Bhakti C.

Software engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/18/2022

"Easy multitenancy for your cloud resources"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

AWS RAM is possibly the most crucial service for any enterprise company working with AWS cloud. In fact, with bigger cloud engineering teams, it's a must-have, without which it is simply not feasible to maintain your AWS resources and avoid duplication of resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Learning curve for any cloud ops manager or non-devops engineering is sometimes bigger to understand all IAM capabilities at first Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohit C.

Member Of Technical Staff

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/11/2022

"AWS ARM - manage resources, permissions and visibility"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

AWS resource access manager enables full management over all IAM users in an org, to share resources and also licensing configurations. Overall billing and consumption of resources between users becomes much more visible and manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Not to dislike really about something that saves a lot in cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogita K.

Accounting Technician, and internal consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/5/2022

"Must try"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

I like this because it is secure and allow me to share my expensive resources very conveniently and it is proving to be very cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Overall I like it no such dislike is there but the only thing I wish could be there is if I could share the resources further which was shared with me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trupti J.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/5/2022

"Reliable tool to manage your resources securely"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Security, reliability. It reduces the overhead to manage resources in every account across the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Did not find any dislike yet. I am still exploring different options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sai krishna M.

Operations Executive Trainee

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 9/1/2022

"Honest review"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

It will be helpful to manage the infrastructure deployment of AWS and entire control on infrastructure in aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Nope there is no such thing like this It's okay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ayush R.

COO and shareholder

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2022

"AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), Great place to share bulk projects within the organization"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Small Processings and Standardised properties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

It's not familiar for non-coders or amateurs. Any platform which helps featuring their properties more simply have more chances of getting into the execution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meenakshi A.

Senior Solution Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/11/2022

"Controller Access to your organization wide AWS Resources"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Similar to Domain Controller or Network Resources Administrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

Nothing found so obviously bothering now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS RAM Console is intuitive for Centralized admin of any organization to handle/share amongst the individual admin groups or sub-organization. This is essential in fast and simple provisioning for any additional sub-organizations for optimal utilization of AWS resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Srihari N.

Business Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/1/2022

"Best way to share resources across accounts"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

The ease with which I can configure things like - who can access the resources, who can share resources etc. is the best feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

There is nothing I dislike about AWS RAM. It's a tool that makes resource sharing easier and also helps in reducing costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santosh Damodaran U.

Lead Data Engineer I

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/16/2022

"A good product for managing all the resources"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

The reduction in operational overhead by not creating various duplicate resources across accounts. This makes the management of multiple EC2 instances and Lambda runs spread across accounts very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

The complicated setup process, that involves too many steps and is hence very time consuming. A simpler step-by-step approach to setup and provisioning will make it much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.