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AWS CloudTrail Reviews & Product Details

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

8 months

User Insights

Average based on 107 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
Abhimanyu S.
AS
Abhimanyu S.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"CloudTrail : Record Everything"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Cloud Trail offers the capabilities to monitor all the changes happening over an AWS account. My most liked feature is the capability of Cloud Trail to filter out changes based on different events, users, and types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

My major disappointment with AWS Cloud Trail is related to the retention period of only 90 days of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parth G.
PG
Parth G.
Lead I Cloud engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Cloud Trail Review"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Ability to track the user activities and also the api usage not only for AWS cloud services but also for hybrid cloud. It is also easy to use and has a good customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

AWS cloud trail is little expensive and also the current log format is only json. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajay S N.
AN
Ajay S N.
Junior Devops Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"CloudTrail to track"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

I am mostly using CloudTrial to detect the activities in my organisation's AWS account. For example if a person terminate any ec2 instance, we can reack it using the resource nme or event name. We can even get the ip from which the activity was initiated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

As of now, I don't have any dislikes since my requirements are satisfied with CloudTrial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Inderdeep S.
IS
Inderdeep S.
Co-Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Very good tool for detailed operation level auditing in AWS"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Its pretty good in terms of data that it provides for each operation being done by any user in AWS and we can view the details of each operation along with ways to link this data to lambdas for any customized flows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

User experience for visualization of auditing trails are not that good as you have to go through each and every event to find out any potential security sensitive dataw which makes it very time taking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Viraj P.
VP
Viraj P.
Associate Lead - Application Security Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Crystal Clear View on Your AWS API Calls"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Easy to manage and very user friendly interface. And Integration is quite simple. We use it daily to investigate the API traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

There should be options to filter out the events. Mostly we jump to CloudWatch to investigate more. And it's hard when scrolling to see older events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gab K.
GK
Gab K.
Senior Lead Engineer
Insurance
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A no-brainer must-have for any size of company"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Automatically records all user actions for audit logging. Sometimes useful to use it for identifying the change log for debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Forces u to pay a lot (S3/CloudWatch) when usage grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great tool for auditlog in aws"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

* It's easy to use and get started.

* Easy to implement and integrate - just in a click of a button

* As an admin I find myself using it frequently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

* AWS customer support can be better

* Hard to know how much it will cost you in the end of the month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debabrata P.
DP
Debabrata P.
Lead Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Simple to implement yet reliable"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

It's extremely simple to implement where you can get started in minutes. The logs are still in details. Started as a security requirement and now we have much more accomplishments using cloudtrail Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Can't think of a reason to dislike. It's simple effective and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manish G.
MG
Manish G.
Devops Support Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"for debugging, auditing, security monitoring and any impacted service: best as logging service"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

it is very great and user-friendly AWS service for governance, compliance, operational auditing or digging into major/critical security monitoring issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

sometimes Logs can be difficult to decipher Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mathews S.
MS
Mathews S.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cloudtrail an analyst tool to investigate"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

The API call logging which is used to keep tracks of changes in AWS cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

A more integrative GUI and more filters to make sure we can filter whatever we want and easy to work on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

8 months

Average Discount

8%

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