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AWS Control Tower vs. TokenEx

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Control Tower
Score 9.3 out of 10
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The vendor presents AWS Control Tower as the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure multi-account AWS environment. With AWS Control Tower, builders can provision new AWS accounts in a few clicks, while knowing new accounts conform to company-wide policies.N/A
TokenEx
Score 0.0 out of 10
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TokenEx is a cloud security platform that uses tokenization to secure and desensitize any structured data element. We specialize in payments use cases, but we also offer solutions for the privacy space, including insurance and health care applications. Our security technology can: Remove sensitive data from your environment Reduce an organization's compliance scope for PCI DSS Pseudonymize data to help satisfy GDPR and other privacy regulations Preserve the…N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AWS Control TowerTokenEx
Considered Both Products
AWS Control Tower
Arkadiusz Góral | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arkadiusz Góral
Lead Engineer
Chose AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower is an extension of AWS Organizations - think of it like the Organiztions on steroids.
KM
kevin mcgillicuddy
IT Infrastructure Supervisor
Chose AWS Control Tower
We did not look at other vendors because we generally want to try to use AWS native products as much as possible for greater support directly from AWS and to reduce 3rd party priority shifts.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AWS Control Tower
Using AWS Systems Manager and other slightly lower level components has been helpful for us to manage parts of our AWS presence at a more granular level than AWS Control Tower was designed for. It's not at all an apples-to-apples comparison as they solve different use cases, …
TokenEx

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User Ratings
AWS Control TowerTokenEx
Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
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User Testimonials
AWS Control TowerTokenEx
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Control Tower is great if you have multiple organizations or disciplines inside a company that needs to be separated for billing purposes or separation of concern. Multiple accounts is part of AWS's well-architected framework and are generally a good idea. AWS Control Tower makes central logging easy which enables those logs to be quickly picked up by a logging tool to provide even more reports and insight. For smaller organizations, AWS Control Tower may seem like an over-engineered solution
KM
kevin mcgillicuddy
IT Infrastructure Supervisor
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Pros
  • AWS Control Tower integrates with AWS organizations
  • AWS Control Tower provides Account Factory to provision preconfigured AWS accounts
  • AWS Control Tower helps to isolate workloads and billing via AWS accounts separation
  • AWS Control Tower supports data residency controls out of the box
  • AWS Control Tower supports post provisioning actions to newly provisioned AWS accounts: for example it can trigger enabling VPC flow logs in the new account
Arkadiusz Góral | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arkadiusz Góral
Lead Engineer
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Cons
  • This level of abstraction leaves you vulnerable to not knowing exactly what's been created, and that can enable you to mess things up.
  • Because it provisions things on your behalf, you might end up paying for resources you don't need.
  • The import process of existing accounts, which we did not end up pursuing, is tedious and manual.
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Usability
There is no way to easily close an AWS account whether it was created manually or via the AWS Control Tower. It takes too many steps to close it vs to provision a new AWS account
Arkadiusz Góral | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arkadiusz Góral
Lead Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
Using AWS Systems Manager and other slightly lower level components has been helpful for us to manage parts of our AWS presence at a more granular level than AWS Control Tower was designed for. It's not at all an apples-to-apples comparison as they solve different use cases, but for us, the use case associated with AWS Systems Manager was a better fit for our specific needs and skillsets. We did not need everything that AWS Control Tower was doing for us.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • AWS Control tower allowed us to drop several third-party vendors for security appliances and logging, which saved us considerable funds.
  • AWS Control tower reduced the amount of time we spend deploying AWS accounts.
  • AWS Control tower reduced the amount of time we have to spend on quarterly security audits.
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Alex Kranz
Senior System Administrator
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