SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs. AWS Identity & Access Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
Score 7.8 out of 10
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SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easily provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files. By analyzing user authorizations and access permission you get visualization of who has access to what and when they accessed it. Demonstrate compliance with most regulatory requirements with customized reports. Provision and deprovision users using…N/A
AWS Identity & Access Management
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables users to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, users can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros

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Features
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Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
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Ratings
AWS Identity & Access Management
6.3
1 Ratings
25% below category average
ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
ID Risk Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)AWS Identity & Access Management
Small Businesses

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Dashlane
Dashlane
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Score 8.8 out of 10
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Score 8.8 out of 10
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
RSA Access Manager (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)AWS Identity & Access Management
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(14 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.8
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
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Vendor post-sale
4.5
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)AWS Identity & Access Management
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.
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Amazon AWS
AWS Identity & Access Management is well suited to managing AWS application access between services. Very helpful for both third-party products and in-house developed software. Very happy with how easy it is to create access keys and then share them in our environment. AWS IAM can also be used to manage individual users, but I highly recommend using AWS SSO for that purpose instead. Much easier to deploy for console access and from a security side easier to turn off in one click from your SSO provider.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is easy to set up and configure. We had the first report generated in a few hours.
  • The automated feature for the reports is great. We just set it and forget it and now the reports get emailed on schedule.
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Amazon AWS
  • Customized access per key to limit scope
  • Safely distributes access keys
  • Provides access audits
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • Licensing model when we changed over to SolarWinds was [I feel] a nightmare. It needs to be more streamlined and SolarWinds needs to understand what their customers require. When we changed over to SolarWinds we found it very hard to get answers to what modules we were still licensed for.
  • Our current system is not functioning. We can't login to the application with the accounts we created that were working. The error that appears doesn't help to resolve it. So at present we just renewed licenses for this year and we can't use the system.
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Amazon AWS
  • Better integration with roles and policies so you don't need three windows open to create a new IAM user
  • Display recommended configurations based on services being used
  • Easier options to base config on existing users
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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Amazon AWS
We would be unable to manage the interconnected nature of our AWS services without AWS IAM.
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Usability
SolarWinds
End user experience is much better than administration
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Amazon AWS
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Reliability and Availability
SolarWinds
On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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Amazon AWS
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Performance
SolarWinds
Satisfactory performance
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Amazon AWS
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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Amazon AWS
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Implementation Rating
SolarWinds
It was my first exposure to this type of product and I wasn’t given the time to figure out how best to implement it. I would say get a plan together of what you are tying to accomplish first
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Amazon AWS
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
I found the installation and configuration to be much easier and more straightforward. What also assisted in the decision to go with Access Rights Manager, was the fact we already made use of Solarwinds products. Knowing from previous experiences with their support staff, meant we knew how great their after-hours support was whenever we had any technical issues with the platform. We felt it would be better to keep it all under one roof so to speak
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Amazon AWS
While we do not use Microsoft Azure for our servers and other customer-facing services. If we did, we would have to use Microsoft Azure Active Directory to manage access to services appropriately. It's difficult to quantify the differences between the services as they are truly different. I would recommend choosing AWS or Azure, then using the identity management provided by the same vendor.
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Scalability
SolarWinds
No experience with this
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Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
  • Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
  • We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves
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Amazon AWS
  • Without IAM, it would be difficult to use AWS across services. Increased ROI
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Screenshots

Screenshot of Active Directory graphical analysisScreenshot of Create userScreenshot of Exchange Distribution Group propertiesScreenshot of File server permissions analysisScreenshot of Screenshot of Report configuration