AWS CloudTrail vs. AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor

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
AWS Trusted Advisor	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides users real time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor are designed to help keep solutions provisioned optimally.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Trusted Advisor

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
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	AWS Trusted Advisor

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Small Businesses	Armor Score 6.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	IBM Turbonomic Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	vRealize Operations (discontinued) Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
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	Amazon AWS It is well suited for an organization that uses AWS tools and technologies. as AWS is very popular in the market. you can use almost any service with it. the only thing is your organization must be using AWS services. It is not also cheap so the price can be the issue. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS API Log User activity tracking Real-time alerts Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Amazon AWS Cost Optimization Effective use of services Performance Report Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer 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	Amazon AWS Although It Provides very good recommendations some times they do not seem logical. Cost estimation can be improved further for particular services Need to have a business or Enterprise plan to access you can give some trial period to try Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer 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	Amazon AWS It does a good job not only it provides cost estimation but also it provides security measures that we have to take to make sure that we are not vulnerable to attacks. It also gives a performance report which helps to analyze the resource allocation and free resources more effectively. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer 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	Amazon AWS Optimized resources less security attacks Saved from overbudget Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
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