AWS CloudTrail vs. Orca Cloud Security Platform

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
Orca Cloud Security Platform
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Orca's Cloud Security Platform is an agentless cloud-native security and compliance platform that allows users to gain complete visibility and coverage into their existing AWS, Azure, and GCP setups. Orca's platform features four main components which are: SideScanning Technology, Context-Aware Security, Built-in Compliance, Automation & Customization.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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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Best Alternatives
AWS CloudTrailOrca Cloud Security Platform
Small Businesses
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Score 8.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
AWS CloudTrailOrca Cloud Security Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS CloudTrailOrca Cloud 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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Orca Security
It's good for finding issues in SSH, ec2 instances, and so on. But it's not good at finding stuff for Serverless lambdas, for containers and some more.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • API Log
  • User activity tracking
  • Real-time alerts
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Orca Security
  • Scanning
  • CSPM
  • IAM Roles
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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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Orca Security
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker containers
  • Serverless
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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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Orca Security
Wiz and aqua are pretty good but Orca has better UI.
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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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Orca Security
  • less need of security team
  • easy to use
  • it's not costly
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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