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AWS Control Tower vs. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

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    AWS Control Tower

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/APrisma Cloud, from Palo Alto Networks (based on technology acquired with Evident.io and RedLock) is presented as a comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP) that delivers full lifecycle security and full stack protection for multi- and hybrid-cloud environments.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    AWS Control TowerPalo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.8
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    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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    Palo Alto Networks
    Finding specific Cloud Vendor specific Cloud resource configuration, tags, network information and etc. is fairly easy to do. Cloud alert capabilities are pretty good and with proper knowledge top notch alerts can be created. Only downside I can think of is ease of use.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    • Vulnerability assessment using Twistlock
    • Enhancing Security by scanning workload based on different Security standards and provide a compliance report
    • CF template integration with CI/CD pipeline to identify any security issue before workload are deployed
    • IAM/UEBA features additional to enchaining security posture
    • Auto remediation
    • Integration is simple and solution is supported on multiple cloud
    • Customized dashboard/queries
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    • Real-time supports would be much appreciated. At the moment they have a third-party ticketing support tool, which can be replaced with real-time support, which can be provided to the user at the time of the issue.
    • The user should be provided with all the learning material by the Palo Alto team at the time of license purchase. This would save a lot of users' time, which is taken up by research and finding the correct documents from the website.
    • Themes can be introduced in the feature set, which would help the user customize the software as per their needs.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    It is no doubts about their functionalities and top-notch security features. The Products do really well in their every feature and gives you complete visibility to your valuable Data at all. The Support for the Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud is also one of the plus point where you gain the confidence into the product.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    Prisma Cloud stacks well with other similar Palo Alto products. UI is beautiful, has decent documentation and some trainings as in other platforms.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    • Help reduce the cost by assisting what resources can be removed according to usage.
    • Report the vulnerabilities.
    • Time saved in investigating the issue.
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