--- 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(1,366) ](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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MV Marios V. CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/20/2021 "A good service for audit trail but needs extra effort" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Easy to setup basic audit trail Free for basic usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Not very human readable trail logs. You have to make an extra effort to save logs, create alerts and parse logs for finding a specific event Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Find who changed something on our setup. Find API calls for expired access keys that we forgot to change on instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/8/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ujjwal A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ujjwal A.") UA Ujjwal A. Assistant Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/13/2023 "A great logging and auditing tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Its implementation is easy across the organisation and AWS support team is very responsive with the solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? 90 days log retention period is restrictive with some of the company compliance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Activity logging and real time notification helped in quick and effective decision making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kingshuk S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kingshuk S.") KS Kingshuk S. Senior Security Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/25/2023 "AWS Cloudtrail provides insight on all the activities in Public Cloud" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Each and every activity of the AWS Cloud is visible and provides API-based integration with many monitoring services to alert any malicious activity Excellent security tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? It is quite a helpful tool and integrates with many SIEM solutions, I don't see anything I can dislike about the tool. Very informative tool from security perspective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Provides Insights of all API or events in the AWS public cloud space. It is beneficial to provide security related insights from what API keys used from which location and what time and what purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/9/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jyotsna P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jyotsna P.") JP Jyotsna P. Technology Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/12/2023 "Database management" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? AWS cloud is beneficial to manage and store critical data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Nothing as of now. Security of the AWS is quite beneficial tfor critical database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Day to day life migration of data on cloud is easy and beneficial to retrive and update database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Firoj S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Firoj S.") FS Firoj S. DevOps Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/22/2023 "Monitor Your API's" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? As AWS CloudTrail is a type of auditing tool so one of the best feature is it shows us the trace of the requests made by the end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Sometimes, the sync between the request and the audit is high, so it makes frustrating in some cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Auditing of the requests which helps in checking if any flase requesting is coming or any DDoS is happening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aman K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aman K.") AK Aman K. Associate Professional Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/9/2023 "Good for monitoring and user activity tracking" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Thing that i like is if someone make any changes in the Aws environment we can go to cloud trail and find out who made changes and when Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Dashboard is quite confusing for the first timer. You need to watch tutorials to use cloud tail effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Whenever anyone makes any changes in the environment its really helpful in finding out who made changes when made changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rishav R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rishav R.") RR Rishav R. Associate Project Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/15/2023 "product amazing" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? amazon product help me in designing my database and help in ui Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? cloudtrail is not give perfect space for storing databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? api management is not so easy as we cant get response delay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite FA Farhan A. Founder & CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/21/2023 "Tracking what's going on in a big infrastructure" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Simple to use. Does what it has to do without any problems. Good UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Its not good for log management. I would recommend using another tool for logging users or APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? we have lots of APIs to maintain and having a tool that integrates fast and its in the same place as our APIs is good thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![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.) 12/14/2023 "Cloud trail review - log and monitor" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Ability to trace and scan all activity across majority of AWS services and integration with cloud watch to automate actions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Is often confused with Cloudwatch. AWS has way too many services named separately. They should club some and provide integrated offering with some of the sub services as features instead of separate names. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Tracing API calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gaurav B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gaurav B.") GB Gaurav B. Technical Consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/13/2023 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Under AWS umbrella, nice utility for GRC, auditing, analytics purposes" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? The API activities monitored by Cloud Trail give the overall picture of all the API integrated within the system, co-located at a central location. So it is of immense use to any organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Nothing major, As it purposefully solves most of the deliverables. Although for analytics purpose the logs generated could be simplified so that could be understood in a better way and presentable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Definitely helps a lot, As it gives the insights, of each API, and a record of actions duly done by the user, role or AWS service consumed. Where on real time basis the dashboard is presented to provide the real time analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about AWS CloudTrail? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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