AWS CloudTrail vs. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

AWS CloudTrail

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…	N/A
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Prisma Cloud, from Palo Alto Networks (based on technology acquired with Evident.io, or the Evident Security Platform) is presented as a comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP) that delivers full lifecycle security and full stack protection for multi- and hybrid-cloud environments. The solution is dedicated to reducing attack surface and checking for vulnerabilities against known or custom signatures of threats and provides daily risk reports, and also detects what users were…	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

You can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudTrail	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
Top Pros	Pro Easy implementation Pro Extremely powerful Pro Ec2 instance	Pro Graphical user Pro Ci cd Pro User interface
Top Cons	Minus 90 days Minus User interface	Minus Learning material Minus Help the user Minus Features missing

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudTrail	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	8.7 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Palo Alto Networks Finding specific Cloud Vendor specific Cloud resource configuration, tags, network information and etc. is fairly easy to do. Cloud alert capabilities are pretty good and with proper knowledge top notch alerts can be created. Only downside I can think of is ease of use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS API Log User activity tracking Real-time alerts Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Palo Alto Networks Vulnerability assessment using Twistlock Enhancing Security by scanning workload based on different Security standards and provide a compliance report CF template integration with CI/CD pipeline to identify any security issue before workload are deployed IAM/UEBA features additional to enchaining security posture Auto remediation Integration is simple and solution is supported on multiple cloud Customized dashboard/queries Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging Logs can be difficult to decipher Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Palo Alto Networks Real-time supports would be much appreciated. At the moment they have a third-party ticketing support tool, which can be replaced with real-time support, which can be provided to the user at the time of the issue. The user should be provided with all the learning material by the Palo Alto team at the time of license purchase. This would save a lot of users' time, which is taken up by research and finding the correct documents from the website. Themes can be introduced in the feature set, which would help the user customize the software as per their needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Palo Alto Networks Our organization didn't consider any other tool, and so far we are pretty much satisfied with Prisma Cloud. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Allows us to investigate any strange api actions Increases security Audit trail of changes made in AWS Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Palo Alto Networks Investigation time is severely reduced Has potential to identify misconfigurations Hard to setup Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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