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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

$$$$$
Manoj K.
MK
Manoj K.
Principal Cloud Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"AWS Cloud Trail"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Cloudtrail helps to troubleshoot a lot of permission-related issues in AWS. Also, CloudTrail can be enabled in the Master Organization account. No need to enable it in each and every child account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Cost of the CloudTrail when there are a lot of events. For example, if you have a Serverless platform & a lot of events happening, then the cost will be more. Cloudtrail costs you based on the number of events. Also, if you stream the logs to Cloudwatch, then Cloudwatch costs will increase drastically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Verified User in Retail
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"You should enable this if you use AWS, this is the truth when you conduct an investigation."
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

It's scalable and it just works, you get such a good level of the audit logs that is really useful during a security incident. If you don't enable CloudWatch logs, you will be in big trouble if something happens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

The logs are lagging, e.g., for Lambda it can take up to 30 seconds from exec to output to the service and it's really hard sometimes to go through the massive amount of logs generated. The interface for searching and following trails is not user-friendly. It also costs a fair bit as each event generates a lot of logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek A.
AA
Abhishek A.
Software Developer Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Secure your awesome software resources and services from getting sabotaged."
5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

The details and the whole AWS services integration is the best thing about the AWS Cloudtrail.

The support from the AWS team is one of the best in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

The tool can be made easier to read and use because it takes some time to understand how it works. A lot of people don't even know that this tool exists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good auditing tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Using AWS CloudTrail, one can track the user activities or API calls. The CloudTrail logging can give insights into the AWS API calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Once you enable CloudTrail logging, the logs are continuously stored. There can also be one option to schedule the CloudTrail logging whenever required. It can be beneficial in test environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swetank S.
SS
Swetank S.
Lead Associate
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Cloud means AWS"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

AWS cloud is fastest compared to other and easy to use. It's one of the best cloud trails available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Sometimes it slows down the internet, don't know why. They should work on this. Also, loading takes time, so if this could be faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Aws auditing through cloudtrail"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Cloudtrail is an awesome aws service which you can use for auditing purposes. All the user activities can be recorded and analysed in cloudtrail dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

The logging is enabled always. There should be one feature to schedule cloudtrail logging. For a few test environments, cloudtrail logs may not be required always. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BS
Blair S.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great tool for monitoring account changes across a large organization"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

It provides great options for monitoring changes to services like Route53 DNS and virtually anything else done in the AWS console. These monitors can be set up to send emails to an array of users so the correct individuals and notified right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

This has been a great tool to use and there aren't any issues we've observed to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azezur R.
AR
Azezur R.
Trainee
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Most reliable and trusted cloud platform."
4/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Getting the free credits to for a time period to test things out and the no of services provided via this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

There is nothing as such on my point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS CloudTrail"
3.5/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Good for monitoring, keeping logs and collecting data for analysis dev and production issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

When creating a child trail, you may prevent them from seeing the trails by creating an IAM permission policy. So you have to create an SCP to prevent disabling CT in each account too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Puneet M.
PM
Puneet M.
Lead Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Easy to use and deploy code. Smooth to run"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS CloudTrail?

Easy to setup and deploy your code and easy to access the URL. As it's very fast with multiple servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

Nothing to dislike aws cloud as its robust and easy to access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Is AWS CloudTrail free?

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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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