AWS CloudTrail

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Activity and usage monitoring tool for AWS accounts

About AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a cloud-based software designed to help businesses monitor the activities of AWS accounts and manage various operational processes related to compliance, auditing, and more. Supervisors can perform security analysis and view, search or download the required event history of selected AWS accounts.

AWS CloudTrail allows organizations to track resource changes and automatically respond to potential account threats. The application integrates with Amazon CloudWatch Events, which helps managers configure workflows according to requirements and detect suspicious activities or potential vulnerabilities, such as spikes in resource provisioning or services. It also lets users detect data exfiltration and ensure compliance with various regulatory standards.

AWS CloudTrail enables businesses to leverage the API call history to troubleshoot security and operational issues. The software also helps users deliver log files from various regions, validate their integrity, and encrypt all log files to prevent unauthorized data exploitation.


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Overall rating

4.6 /5
(18)
Value for Money
4.3/5
Features
4.7/5
Ease of Use
4.2/5
Customer Support
4.4/5

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Samuel
Samuel
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

AWS Cloudtrail the effective activity tracking tool for Cloud Infrastructure

Reviewed on 2024/06/23

Very easy to set up, just search for Cloudtrail and it begins to analyse and monitor activities on...

Very easy to set up, just search for Cloudtrail and it begins to analyse and monitor activities on your organization AWS account.

One thing that really suits me in cloud services is the real time monitoring of activities.

Pros

Provides a view and analysis of all activity and operation on your AWS infrastructure.

Improves security and helps businesses with compliance by maintaining standard regulations, data encryption and archiving and compliance reporting.

Integrated with other AWS services

Cons

Additional cost.

Might require technical expertise to effectively analyse reports

Filtering the data of interest Might be time consuming

Sathish
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

User activities on Cloud Trail

Reviewed on 2024/12/02

It was good because we can track all the user activities

It was good because we can track all the user activities

Pros

We can track and audit all the AWS users api calls in a central dashboard.

Cons

In cloud trail, every API calls made by the users will cost you, so it is pretty expensive and compare to any other Cloud in the market.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure

Reasons for Switching to AWS CloudTrail

We integrated with AWS cloud trial because we are using Aws from the beginning, since when we started the project and all our application applications are running inside the Aws.
Andy
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

User controls and auditing

Reviewed on 2022/12/18

Pros

Cloudtrail is important to monitor activities across multiple resources - such as programmatic changes that were made to resources or even bad actors since it fully logs all activities on AWS resources (such as various DBs).

Cons

The biggest challenge with using Cloudtrail is effectively filtering for activity you're interested in. This is more from the nature of the problem than Cloudtrail itself. The thoroughness of the information being logged within Cloudtrail includes quite a bit of information that is not necessarily relevant for incident management.

Avineet
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Robust Cloud activity auditing and alert tool

Reviewed on 2020/07/05

Used to audit the activities on the cloud devices and alert for services on a threshold setup once...

Used to audit the activities on the cloud devices and alert for services on a threshold setup once breached. Storing of logs easily in S3. Amazing analytics provided by the trace logging.

Pros

The smart feature of managing each device being run on the cloud and the alerting capability of the tool.

Cons

The graphs could be better and integration with various other tools could be more versatile. Cost could be lower.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure

Reasons for Switching to AWS CloudTrail

Feature and use of AWs services made it a natural choice over Azure.
Feterzon
Feterzon
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AWS CloudTrail easy

Reviewed on 2023/10/11

Pros

Easy to monitor from dashboard of the cloud management

Cons

difficult to configuration to have it running as expected

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AWS CloudTrail FAQs

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AWS CloudTrail offers the following pricing plans:

  • Free Trial: Available

Please contact Amazon Web Services for pricing details.

AWS CloudTrail has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

AWS CloudTrail supports the following languages:

English

AWS CloudTrail supports the following devices:

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AWS CloudTrail offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

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