--- 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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AC Austin C. Solutions Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/29/2018 "Works for automation" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? It successfully tracks all of the events occurring within your account and gives you ways to export them and process them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? It's a very clunky, poorly documented system that requires a lot of trial and error to get right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: Don't expect cloudtrail to do anything more than send you event information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? We're exporting events to allow us to track resources changes across all of our accounts and look up those resources to see what changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/17/2019 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SM sanya m. Senior Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/26/2018 "AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for AWS account and delivers logfiles!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? It's very easy to perform log management , and by using analytical services we can able to identify any malicious behavior and thus it provides great security , and here we can log so many information with comparatively very less amount of configurations, at present cloudTrail service is supported in all AWS regions,you can create retention policies on the s3 bucket too , CloudTrail services can be further configured to push notifications using AWS SNS service easily !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Event of API call is not delivered immediately by cloudtrail and it takes around 15 mins to provide information about API calls event , so we have to face around 15 mins of delay for every updates !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: if you're managing large scale infrastructure for your company where so many application is interacting with AWS , then cloud trail will make your work a lot easier , it can able to monitor all your aws account activities , you can extract many kind of information from AWS CloudTrail events!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? as we're running a large scale infrastructure, it's quite common to have a lot of different applications interacting with the AWS services so we need to use cloud trail logging for all of our infrastructure and applications !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JS Jayesh S. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/24/2018 "Used to track User Activities And User's API usage" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? AWS CloudTrail is a service that helps you for better governance,compliance and operational as well as risk auditing of your aws account.It helps you to log and continously monitor the account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure.It also provides event history for account activity including the actions taken through management controls,sdk's and all other tools interacting with aws.It is the best service for security analysis for a company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Not much to dislike about AWS CloudTrail.I would say it is the security force for your aws infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: I would recommend using AWS cloudtrail for managing your aws infrastructure and make sure that the company's resources are used in accordance with the company's policies.It provides you the best activity tracker of aws services and also a detailed one which helps you provide security to the aws account.It is the only tool recommended for activity tracking on aws because it provide every minute details no matter from where you use aws(command line,api,portal,etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? For a big company managing the cloud infrastructure even of third party is a tedious task and also the security is one of the major tedious task because you need to make sure that the company's resources and infrastructure are used properly and in accordance with the company policies ,for that you require a great activity tracking tool which is cloud trail for aws.So we have been one of the valuable customer of aws so we also use cloudtrail to prevent fraudulent activities and secure our aws infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rohit J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rohit J.") RJ Rohit J. Student Employee Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Nice experience" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Get the api call made to our system. we can see who made the call and from whaere the call is made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? So fare we havent faced see any problem that made us to dislike it. So fare we havent faced see any problem that made us to dislike it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: Yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? what are the API call are made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Dennis D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dennis D.") DD Dennis D. DevOps and Security Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/28/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Visibility of changes" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Cloudtrail is great for watching any changes to your infrastructure, and away resources. It allows for compliance since it can both track changes, and attribute them to users through IAM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? It takes a while sometimes for events to populate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Compliance, after-hours support and auditability all inproved through use of this product. 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.) 2/17/2019 "CloudTrail and the source of truth " 4/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Amount of logging and data it can provide to help an organization to better manage the AWS security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? I wish it provides a platform for reporting the data in a more user friendly way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Security and the usage patterns of the infrastructure as a whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/4/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Logging" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? The best part of the service is it helps to identify what action was performed and at what time and who performed the action. Helps to identify what went wrong and at what time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? There is nothing to dislike about the product. Helped in situations to identify what resources changed and who made the changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: NA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Tracking changes in the environment and debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "Cloudtrail Review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Best thing about cloudtrail is the easy setup. Another thing I like about cloudtrail is the fact that the data doesn't lie. If someone does something it gets recorded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? Some of the searchability of cloudtrail could be a little easier to understand. Other than that there isn't too much that I have to say about the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? We are tracking all use of AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/12/2018 "Analytics for AWS " 4/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? Support was great and it's Amazon so what's not to like. The KPI tracking and metrics were very useful and helps to provide visibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? I am generally an Amazon fan, but for those who aren't you may not enjoy cloud trail because you likely aren't using AWS. While the analytics are helpful there's no real security build in would be kind of nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: There are certainly more robust monitoring and reporting softwares on the market but this gets the job done, has some nice features, is pretty easy to use and it's Amazon, so yea not too bad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? Ability to have complete visibility into your infrastructure is very valuable in uncovering areas that could use improvement or identifying problems and potential threats Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Glen G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Glen G.") GG Glen G. Senior Director IT Architecture Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/29/2018 "Easy way to monitor transactions and operations" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail? The easy integration with multiples services and how easy we can extract and monitor with external tools and open sources apps, have a way to check API usage and audit data is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail? The vendor lock situation I would love to easy be cloud agnostic and move from one provider to another without multiples changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CloudTrail: Make easy to port to another technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CloudTrail solving and how is that benefiting you? The easy integration with open source and have a monitoring mechanism to manage those environments, I like the API monitoring integrationwith other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/3/2018 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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