AWS CloudTrail vs. Digital Shadows

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS CloudTrail
Score 8.5 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
Digital Shadows
Score 8.6 out of 10
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San Francisco-based Digital Shadows presents a vulnerability management solution.N/A
Pricing
AWS CloudTrailDigital Shadows
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrailDigital Shadows
Free Trial
YesNo
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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Top Pros

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User Ratings
AWS CloudTrailDigital Shadows
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
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9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
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User Testimonials
AWS CloudTrailDigital Shadows
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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Digital Shadows
DS is fantastic for big and large-medium companies, it has many very featured functions and works very well. It's a little bit expensive for small and little-medium companies.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • API Log
  • User activity tracking
  • Real-time alerts
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Digital Shadows
  • We found company emails used for personal uses.
  • We found internal documents in deep web.
  • We found news and information about the company managers on social media not delivered by the company.
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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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Digital Shadows
  • I'd like to have still more features for searching on social media.
  • I'd like to have a better interface for configuration.
  • It's expensive for middle and small companies, I'd like to have a reduced-features version for them.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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Digital Shadows
Solved the problems of my customers and permitted to clearly demonstrate these problems to management.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Digital Shadows
It's very easy to use, also non-technical users can understand the information to use for search and results, initial configuration is less easy to configure but just a little.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Digital Shadows
They are very available and competent, in addition, they used people with a good knowledge of the Italian language that helped very much, especially with the first customer.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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Digital Shadows
As I said: ease of use, scanningg of deep web and social media, results easy to understand and use.
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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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Digital Shadows
The other product didn't have searches on Social Media.
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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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Digital Shadows
  • DS gave more visibility on the company cyber exposure.
  • Results of DS searches helped to solve security holes in people's behaviour.
  • Company management reached more awareness about company cyber exposure.
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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