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AWS Organizations vs RSA Archer comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Organizations
Ranking in IT Governance
6th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
RSA Archer
Ranking in IT Governance
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
GRC (1st), IT Vendor Risk Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Governance category, the mindshare of AWS Organizations is 2.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RSA Archer is 20.5%, down from 29.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RSA Archer20.5%
AWS Organizations2.8%
Other76.7%
IT Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Abiola Olaibi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer
Centralized governance has strengthened compliance and now supports secure multi-account growth
The best features that AWS Organizations offers include service control policies because they help me to affect comprehensive governance, especially with the organizational units for scalability and centralized billing and account management. It provides me with the tools I need for effective governance, ensuring compliance across the entire enterprise, particularly with implementing guardrails with the service control policies. With service control policies, I'm able to enforce preventative guardrails, automatically ensuring compliance and mitigating risk in my daily work. Centralized billing has given me significant financial management control with a unified cost view. In my various projects, service control policies have helped prevent non-compliant deployments by restricting specific AWS regions or prohibiting service access. In addition, the service control policies have greatly helped me maintain security and regulatory standards while implementing centralized billing.
CJ
Information Security Specialist at Dubai Health Authority
Centralized management strengthens compliance with good look and feel
From my perspective as a customer and end user, Archer has an impressive look and feel, but the most adaptive feature is its ease of configuration which helps to enhance our process according to our maturity. It's more about our organization getting centralized with an integrated approach that focuses on risk governance and compliance. When can provide a detailed dashboards to management with the details of risks from top-down or bottom-up prioritizing actions based on its criticality or necessity. This allows us to show end users and management where the issues lie and effectively demonstrate accountability and visibility in compliance.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Centralized billing has given me significant financial management control with a unified cost view."
"The main feature of AWS Organizations that I find valuable is the management of multiple accounts, as I can manage billing, access, and security for all accounts from a single point instead of managing them separately, and it provides a single pane of glass for oversight while its consolidated billing feature streamlines customer financial workflows and, being a free service, is cost-effective for managing multiple accounts."
"The main feature of AWS Organizations that I find valuable is the management of multiple accounts."
"Solution is scalable."
"Its ROI is quite high when you look at how long it takes for people to input stuff for compliance risk, vulnerability management, and threat management."
"The main benefit is that we can automate risk management."
"Its user interface is pretty neat, and there is flexibility in generating the data. You can customize reports at any level. You can directly get reports in Tableau format. If you want to generate statistical data, you can create reports with graphs. There is an adequate amount of flexibility for changing the format, the type of graphs, etc."
"RSA Archer GRC modules allow you to build efficient, collaborative enterprise governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs across IT, finance, operations, and legal domains."
"Community content in the Archer Exchange is very valuable."
"With this tool, once it was built and designed, we were able to use our own internal resources, we don't need to go outside, all of the questions are already there, the policies and procedures are already built-in and you just need to tweak them a bit, so it helps us just in understanding what's there on the ground and overall it saves us a lot of money to be spent if we are taking care of these services individually."
"RSA Archer has reduced the time and effort required for meetings."
 

Cons

"An option to bind a card or add a payment button would enhance the service."
"My personal experience indicates a need for context-aware service control policies that enforce strict security boundaries without stifling the need for innovation."
"GUI could be improved."
"The solution’s customization features could be better. Its performance and scalability need improvement as well."
"The product is expensive, and there are additional costs if you need to integrate more licenses or want more features."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"The technology's a little outdated."
"The design and advanced workflow need to be improved."
"Archer could be improved by having more customization."
"The solution as a whole could be simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"As I am a developer and responsible for providing production support, I do not have personal knowledge of the pricing. However, my colleagues claim that it is very expensive in comparison with other tools."
"Fairly highly-priced, especially for smaller companies."
"I am not sure about other companies, but it's quite expensive."
"The price of RSA Archer is good. The price isn't too high considering it is a leading tool in the market."
"The solution is not at all a cheap product."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
"The price of the solution is very affordable."
"The license is costly for the solution, but the remaining set up and maintenance is quite cheaper."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise25
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AWS Organizations?
An option to bind a card or add a payment button would enhance the service. It would allow customers like me to easily make payments instead of navigating through individual accounts.
What is your primary use case for AWS Organizations?
I use AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. It is similar to SSO. The main difference is that I use JamCloud for sign-in. AWS Organizations acts like a parent account with multiple child a...
What advice do you have for others considering AWS Organizations?
For users like me with larger customer bases who have multiple accounts and want to streamline their billing and management from a single account, AWS Organizations is a good solution. Overall, I r...
What needs improvement with RSA Archer?
While it provides benefits in terms of security, the pricing is a bit higher than customers typically expect. It would be helpful if RSA Archer had the capability for two-way integration because, i...
What is your primary use case for RSA Archer?
Regarding the compliance, risk, and governance tools, I am comfortable discussing the tools in the GRC category. The specific module from ServiceNow is the ServiceNow Compliance, Risk, and Governan...
What advice do you have for others considering RSA Archer?
I have been in touch with about three companies who use RSA Archer actively in the compliance area. These companies use RSA Archer for nearly all purposes, including governance, internal risk, and ...
 

Also Known As

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Archer
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
T-Systems, Bridge Point, Equifax, First Data, Global Imaging Company, Manulife Financial
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