AWS CloudTrail vs. Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS CloudTrail
Score 8.6 out of 10
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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
Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security Platform
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Check Point Software Technologies offers the CloudGuard Cloud Native Security platform, a cloud security option for securing IaaS and PaaS infrastructure. The solution provides unified cloud native security for assets and workloads, to give users the confidence to automate security, prevent threats, and manage posture – everywhere – across a multi-cloud environment.N/A
Pricing
AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security Platform
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AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security Platform
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYou 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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User Ratings
AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS CloudTrailCheck Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security Platform
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.
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Check Point Software Technologies
Checkpoint Cloud Guard Native Security Platform is much better in native cloud infra security requirements. It works well, and the manageability of said product is good. But If you are having some hybrid kind of environment, it is not suitable, and the products have more complexity to deploy. There are so many other players to do well in this segment.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • API Log
  • User activity tracking
  • Real-time alerts
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Cloud Native integration.
  • Excellent and Clean UI.
  • Cloud Infra Security Management.
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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
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Deployment method.
  • Technical support.
  • Cloud-based manageability.
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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.
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Check Point Software Technologies
We have performed all research and evaluation for all competitive players as well we did POC for every product. Based on our comparison chart, we found Check Point Cloud Guard Native Security Platform much better and works extremally well compared to all other peers. It has a robust architecture and has really good features.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
  • Increases security
  • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Negative - ROI.
  • Positive - Good product with UI.
  • Negative - Technical Support.
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ScreenShots

AWS CloudTrail Screenshots

Screenshot of CloudTrail Insights: Identify and respond to unusual operational activity
•Unexpected spikes in resource provisioning
•Bursts of IAM management actions
•Gaps in periodic maintenance activity
•Automatic analysis of API calls and usage patterns
•Alerts when unusual activity is detected