Azure Lighthouse is an Azure capability that provides cross-tenant delegated resource management, enabling a managing tenant to operate and monitor resources across multiple customer tenants through a single control plane.
Published Oct 14, 2026
| Aspect | Azure Lighthouse | AWS Control Tower | Azure Arc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting Price | No charge for the core service; customers pay for underlying Azure services and add-ons | No charge for the core service; customers pay for enabled AWS services and related consumption | Core control plane includes free components; paid add-ons and service usage drive costs |
| Best For | MSP/MSSP cross-tenant Azure resource management using delegated access | Multi-account AWS governance and landing zone orchestration on AWS Organizations | Extending Azure management to on-premises and multicloud servers/Kubernetes and enabling Azure management/security services |
| Key Strength | Delegated resource management across tenants; avoids creating provider admin accounts in customer tenants | Opinionated landing zone and governance baseline integrated with AWS Organizations | Broader hybrid/multicloud reach; brings non-Azure resources into the Azure management plane |
| Key Weakness | Not a complete organization-governance replacement; can be operationally heavy for monitoring/alerting at scale; depends on correct RBAC design | Can increase costs via enabled services and requires governance design choices | Can become costly when monitoring/security services are enabled broadly; not specifically a cross-tenant MSP delegation construct |
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