AWS Control Tower vs. Check Point CloudGuard

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Control Tower
Score 8.1 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
Check Point CloudGuard
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Check Point CloudGuard is a comprehensive cloud security platform used to prevent threats and prioritize risks in the cloud across applications, network, and workloads.N/A
Pricing
AWS Control TowerCheck Point CloudGuard
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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AWS Control TowerCheck Point CloudGuard
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
AWS Control TowerCheck Point CloudGuard
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4 ratings)
7.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Control TowerCheck Point CloudGuard
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
We were wanting to prove the concept of a low touch process for quickly spinning up boilerplate AWS environments. We were able to get started quickly and to ensure that the AWS Well-Architected Framework principles were followed - at least upfront - however, we found that for our use case and expertise level it ultimately wasn't a fit. We have the skills on our team to manage more of this on our own. My recommendation would be contingent on what skills are already available on your team: if you can "do it yourself" you might as well so that you don't pay for resources you don't need and you have finer grain control over what's created.
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Check Point Software Technologies
Checkpoint Cloud Guard Native Security Platform is much better in native cloud infra security requirements. It works well, and the manageability of said product is good. But If you are having some hybrid kind of environment, it is not suitable, and the products have more complexity to deploy. There are so many other players to do well in this segment.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Easily create new AWS accounts.
  • Easily secure and manage AWS accounts.
  • Landing zone with SSO is a huge win for larger teams.
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Advanced Threat protection via Check Point CloudGuard proven ThreatCloud intelligence feeds for malicious IP's is a nice feature.
  • We have not set up the cloud bots auto-remediation functionality yet, but from initial testing, it looks to be something worth utilizing.
  • Having reporting tie in's with our ServiceNow asset management platform is very handy.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • The AWS SSO GUI is not very intuitive and determining how to apply policies to users without creating redundant logins has been a challenge.
  • The default guardrails do not fully encompass all the security checks that we needed.
  • There does not appear to be any way to control roles at the IAM level from the control tower account through the GUI.
  • Some features on AWS accounts still require logging into the individual account with the root user and cannot be done from AWS Control Tower.
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Support Services - Support during implementation
  • Proof-of-concept - Needs to more detailed
  • Troubleshooting multi-cloud/ vendor issues
  • Should contain all the compliance standards - NIST, HIPPA, FedRAMP
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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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Check Point Software Technologies
Is easy to use, and the standad configuration is well prepared.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Check Point Software Technologies
Checkpoint support is great. They provide great SLAs and they comply with service times accordingly.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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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Check Point Software Technologies
Most products have their pros and cons but Dome9 does everything Evident.io and Redlock can do and more. Evident was a good tool but merging the two products into one complicated things.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Less time manually deploying accounts which was error prone.
  • Central logging allowed us to have 1 place to view logs.
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Significant $$$ cost savings as compared to other competitors in the market
  • Long term contracting also helped in cost savings and good ROI - 750k USD approx
  • Multi-vendor and Multi-cloud capabilities also helped us forecast the capex well
  • No need of any other IAM solution - Some cost savings in that area as well for us,
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