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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

$$$$$
Austin C.
AC
Austin C.
Solutions Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

SM
sanya m.
Senior Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"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.

JS
Jayesh S.
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Rohit J.
RJ
Rohit J.
Student Employee
Higher Education
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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 where the call is made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudTrail?

So far we haven't faced any problem that made us dislike it. So far we haven't faced any problem that made us dislike it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dennis D.
DD
Dennis D.
DevOps and Security Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Verified User in Retail
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Verified User in Internet
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Glen G.
GG
Glen G.
Senior Director IT Architecture
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

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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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