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AWS Organizations vs. AWS Systems Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Organizations
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
AWS Organizations helps users centrally govern an environment as the organization grows, and scale workloads on AWS. Using AWS Organizations, users can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance.N/A
AWS Systems Manager
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
AWS Systems Manager allows users to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. With it, users can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. Systems Manager allows users to select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch…
$0.20
Per Million Calls
Pricing
AWS OrganizationsAWS Systems Manager
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
AppConfig
$0.20
Per Million Calls
OpsCenter
$2.97
Per 1,000 Items
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS OrganizationsAWS Systems Manager
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AWS OrganizationsAWS Systems Manager
Features
AWS OrganizationsAWS Systems Manager
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Organizations
9.7
1 Ratings
16% above category average
AWS Systems Manager
-
Ratings
ID-Management Access Control9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Organizations
-
Ratings
AWS Systems Manager
8.0
1 Ratings
9% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS OrganizationsAWS Systems Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS OrganizationsAWS Systems Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
AWS Organizations is well suited for centralized billing and user management of all of your AWS accounts when paired with AWS SSO and a SAML provider of your choice. AWS Organizations does not have an integration with IAM user accounts and this could be helpful for organizations without SAML capability.
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Amazon AWS
When you have a process running in aws that needs to copy files to group of instances as part of the process Installing software on a group of machines Adding Cloudwatch agent to instance.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Brings all AWS organizations under one management structure for billing
  • Simplified management of user access with AWS SSO
  • Centralized reporting
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Amazon AWS
  • Copy files to a group of instance with particular tag
  • Enable CW agent and push metrics to CW
  • Easy to install software in a group of instances.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Could include cross organization IAM management
  • Could allow quick login access to other organizations like the AWS SSO homepage
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Amazon AWS
  • I would like to see the Search feature improved a bit more.
  • UI is little bit confusing initially
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Not applicable. AWS Organizations is unique in managing multiple AWS accounts.
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Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • AWS Organizations allow for quick user access when paired with AWS SSO and SAML groups.
  • AWS Organizations does not use IAM users and there is an initial cost in time to set up AWS SSO.
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Amazon AWS
  • Reduced team's time spent on EC2 management
  • Patch management
  • Remote access
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