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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

$$$$$
Rahul S.
RS
Rahul S.
Devops engineer
Construction
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best Service to track User activities on AWS Console"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Earlier we were not able to track User, what they are doing on AWS. Some of user use to do create/delete operations on EC2s, RDS & some lambda function. But we were not able to track who is deleting our DBs, it was test DB but still recreation of this things is very hetic and updating data. By using this we started tracking everything and gradually this things decreased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

We can only see the tracking details of last 15 days, we need to store logs on S3 bucket and from there we can query with Athena. That is not good for me as a user, If I'm paying I need things at one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramakrishna K.
RK
Ramakrishna K.
Lead Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS Cloud Trail"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Cloud trail using for user activity and API calls recording and Governance purpose Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

No dislikes about cloud trail, it's all advantages and there is no dislikes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Verified User in Education Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great service"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Amending service great to use ease of work and access to multiple data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

A little more user friendly experience must be added into this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
UL
Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

We audit all the unauthorised activities happening in our account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Not storing logs more than 90days. And if we have to dig more days ago we can't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Igor Z.
IZ
Igor Z.
Senior DevOps Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good tool for account audit"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

The ability to trace all actions that were performed in AWS account and the ability to query the data thru Athena. I like I may have an integration with our Splunk cloud and be abled to query the data thru Splunk and create alerts based on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

I don't think I can point to any disadvantages that I don't like. The product is quite suitable for our needs and requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring
UO
Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The best monitoring tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

This tool makes it very easy to keep track of the infrastructure installed on the AWS while also keeping logs of any actions performed by anyone using its features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

There isn't anything which I dislike about this product. It's simply amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kavya P.
KP
Kavya P.
Freelance Writer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Essential Audit tracking service"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

CloudTrail is a must audit tracking service for every organization that want a detailed trace of activities in their accounts

Helps in the governance of the account and tracking auditing events.

Offers auditing across multiple services such as glue, s3, compute Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

The logs are stored in S3 and can lead to leak or splurge in costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen C.
SC
Stephen C.
Agile Coach and Scrum Master
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great audirting tool"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Cloudtrail is an great auditing tool (unlike Cloudwatch which is the monitoring tool - hint for anyone taking their AWS exams as this often comes up). As an audit tool and a web service, it is more granular and logs every API activity across your AWS Services. The granularity of the logs makes it useful for doing a deep dive into your AWS service (s). The log shows user, date, IP Address, so all you really need. CloudTrail is enabled by default (super if you forget to turn on every service!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

You need CloudWatch to set alarms as there is no alarm system currently with CloudTrail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pradeep B.
PB
Pradeep B.
N
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Easy to track Evey activity of you AWS account"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Can be found every activity logs in same for AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Too much of logs quantity need to be consolidated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishnu V.
VV
Vishnu V.
Staff Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Logs everything to S3 !!!"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Perfect debugging tool which logs lot of metadata about the events in AWS environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Events are reported with the delay of couple of minutes, this can be improved. We can achieve it by subscribing to cloudwatch bus 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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