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)

Discussions

AWS CloudTrail Community

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

8 months

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User Insights

Average based on 107 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

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AWS CloudTrail Integrations

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 makes any changes in the AWS environment we can go to CloudTrail 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 CloudTrail effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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?

It's not good for log management. I would recommend using another tool for logging users or APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

Gaurav B.

Technical Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/13/2023

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"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.