AWS Control Tower vs. Wiz

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
Wiz
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Wiz is a Tel Aviv based, cloud risk visibility solution for enterprise security. It provides a 360° view of security risks across clouds, containers and workloads.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Control TowerWiz
Free Trial
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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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Community Pulse
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Features
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Cloud Computing Security Features
Comparison of Cloud Computing Security Features features of Product A and Product B
AWS Control Tower
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Ratings
Wiz
7.5
Ratings
4% below category average
Automated Data Backup and Recovery00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Intrusion Detection and Prevention:00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Regular Vulnerability Management00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Identity and Access Management00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Secure Data Transfer00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Security Incident Response00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Compliance and Auditing00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS Control TowerWiz
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.2
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Usability
8.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
AWS Control TowerWiz
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
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Wiz is well-suited if you want to run real-time scans against resources that were recently patched or configured. It is good to keep track of vulnerabilities found and what can be done to resolve the issues without having to open up multiple tabs. Overall, it is good to keep an eye on how well cloud teams or cloud security teams are doing.
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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
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  • Getting started with Wiz was quick and painless. The onboarding process was well-structured, and their team provided solid support to help us integrate Wiz into our cloud environments with minimal effort. Documentation is clear, and their customer success team is always on hand to help with any questions, making the adoption process seamless
  • One of Wiz’s biggest strengths is how clearly it presents security risks. It provides a well organised view of issues, making it easy to see where action is needed. The AI-powered Remediation Wizard is a great feature, offering guided fixes and automation options that speed up resolution, reducing the time spent manually investigating and fixing issues.
  • The Wiz interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, which is a big plus when dealing with complex environments. Everything is laid out in a way that makes it simple to drill down into issues
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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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  • Wiz scanning doesn't detect risks in real time. New sensors are now included and these capabilities are growing. I believe that within a year Wiz will get good real time capabilities
  • Wiz can generate a lot of alerts, which can be overwhelming, especially if you have a very dynamic environment. It's important to set up filters so that you only receive alerts for the risks that are most important to you.
  • Wiz can improve the way it augments the vulnerability data with additional data on Technologies. It sometimes has missing technologies but updated its inventory as soon as we opened a case on that.
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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
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The UI is very user-friendly, with documentation available on every page of the application. New users can learn about the product features as they navigate through several different pages, using the instructions at the top of each page, making it quite easy to use.
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Reliability and Availability
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Never experience issue yet
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Performance
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No issues
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Support Rating
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it great support very responsive up to the point
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Implementation Rating
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Multiple option with automation features as well
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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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Prior to Wiz, I have used mostly AWS security services such as security HUB for CSPM and GuardDuty for threat intel. Although these services are great, it makes it hard to centralize this information in a multi-cloud deployment. It is understandable that AWS native services may provide more info and realtime security analysis of its services, but does not scale well with a growing organization looking to leverage amazing tools from other CSPs. Wiz may not have real time analysis or the most relevant vulnerability findings for cloud platforms compared to their native solutions, but Wiz scales extremely well, which in cases is a more valuable asset.
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Scalability
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Robots front end API and ment for developer to use
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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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  • We haven't completed a full rollout yet, but the goal is to shift left security to all of our product teams so that security is a shared effort across the organization.
  • We want to be able to demonstrate fast remediations, corrective action plans with tangibles from Wiz in response to audits or red team findings.
  • We would like to also use information from Wiz to substantiate answers to security questionnaires that customers requires us to fill out in order to do business with them.
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