--- title: AWS CloudTrail Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS CloudTrail Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 107 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS CloudTrail works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 107 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # AWS CloudTrail Reviews & Product Details AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. It records actions taken by users, roles, or AWS services as events, capturing API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs. This comprehensive logging provides visibility into user activity and resource changes, facilitating security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. Key Features and Functionality: - Event History: Provides a viewable, searchable, and downloadable record of the past 90 days of management events in an AWS Region, allowing users to monitor and review recent account activity without additional setup. - Trails: Enables continuous recording of events by creating trails that deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. Trails can be configured to capture management events, data events, and insights events, offering flexibility in monitoring specific activities. - CloudTrail Lake: A managed data lake that allows for the aggregation, storage, and analysis of events. It supports SQL-based querying and integrates with services like Amazon Athena for advanced analytics. - Insights: Detects unusual activity by analyzing management events and identifying anomalies in API call volumes or error rates, aiding in proactive security and operational monitoring. - Integration with AWS Services: Seamlessly integrates with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EventBridge, enabling automated responses to specific events and enhancing monitoring capabilities. Primary Value and Problem Solved: AWS CloudTrail addresses the critical need for transparency and accountability within AWS environments. By providing detailed records of user and service activities, it helps organizations meet compliance requirements, enhance security posture, and efficiently troubleshoot operational issues. The service's ability to detect anomalies and integrate with other AWS services ensures that users can proactively manage and secure their cloud resources. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS CloudTrail Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloudtrail/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 8 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloudtrail/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Okta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Okta") Okta 4.5/5(1,367) ](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) [ ![Termius](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Termius") Termius 4.8/5(268) ](https://www.g2.com/products/termius/reviews) [ ![SAP Fiori](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP Fiori") SAP Fiori 4.3/5(207) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-fiori/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloudtrail/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 107 real user reviews. 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All the audit functions, it's very cool everything. Nothing else, the way we can get into the details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? The tables are not so visual but still cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a couple users activities that wouldn't be possible to track if it wasn't for CloudTrail Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing") AE Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "Knowing what is going on in your account" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? What I most like about Cloudtrail is the ability for me to have visibility at what resources users are creating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? What I dislike about Cloudtrail is that is does not track every resource event Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Haveing better visibility at what is happening in your account Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/9/2018 "AWS Cloudtrail gives my company a sense of security " 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? We love using the cloud. I like that it is backed by amazons customer service. They are so reliable and trustworthy it really boosts my confidence in using them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? I wish we could have live chat tech support. It would be nice to video call with the tech people to walk me through any issues. I think this could be easier to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: I definitely recommend this to other companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a lot of secure information for students and we like to keep it in a cloud because so many employees need access. It makes more sense then keeping it on harddrives. It also saves space on our system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Follow the rabbit" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Provides historical information that proves to be so valuable in many different situations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Not much yet. The features are useful, and we are not running into issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Making sure things don't get too far sideways when the playground is open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") IH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "abbvie CloudTrail Experience" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? It logs a lot of activity of what is happening in the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? I would like to consolidate logs across different ECS Tasks in one stream and better look & feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Application Support is primarily done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") AH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Clunky" 3/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Certainly having centrak view of apis is great and console acccess is simplified Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? searching and sorting, logs can be cryptic and hard ti understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? reason for failures on cloudformation and understnading who did whar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "Essential for any aws account " 4/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Logging api activity to understand what events took place in the account Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Raw logs are extremely hard to read. Need a better way to parce through the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? ability to detect unauthorized account activity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "CloudTrail Review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Auditability of all API events on AWS is incredibly powerful. Especially for building event driven architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Eventually consistent, not real time. Would be better if it were streaming data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: Use it, always Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Security, automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Medical Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Medical Practice") UM Verified User in Medical Practice Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "limited logging" 2.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? How quick and simple the process is to review logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? very limited functionality/filtering - we use datadog more often for more advanced info gathering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: use datadog or loggly instead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? debugging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Trail the logs.. thats all we do !!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? The synchronos way of trailing logs is very impressive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Various types of log trails are needed to implemented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Mostly any services that use the CLoud Trail Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about AWS CloudTrail? 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