AWS CloudTrail vs. Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

AWS CloudTrail

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

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
Symantec Cloud Workload Protection	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Symantec provides cloud security via the Symantec Cloud Workload Protection application, providing auto-discovery and vulnerability protection of cloud applications and services.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Symantec Cloud Workload Protection
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	Symantec Cloud Workload Protection
Top Pros	Pro Easy implementation Pro Extremely powerful Pro Ec2 instance	Pro Policy creation Pro Security measures Pro Latest security
Top Cons	Minus 90 days Minus User interface	Minus Easy deployment Minus Security system Minus Behind the scenes

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudTrail	Symantec Cloud Workload Protection
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Medium-sized Companies	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Symantec Cloud Workload Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Symantec Cloud Workload Protection
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	Broadcom The high level of IT expertise was recognized when using Symantec Cloud Workload Protection as security software when forming a business partnership with a major IT company. In addition, since it is possible to centrally manage the control of USB devices to each employee's PC, it is of great help to the head of the company's security department to be able to handle it with one hand. Incentivized Brandon R Hudson Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS API Log User activity tracking Real-time alerts Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Broadcom Ultimate Protection Ransomware resiliency Better Policy management Cloud model with Offline Agent deployment Incentivized AM Ankit Mistry IT Software Consultant 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	Broadcom Occasionally, the security system would detect the introduction of a dedicated tool or system from another company that is generally not available. With a 16GB laptop, the PC will be slow when scanning. While developing, I feel a little inconvenience that the PC freezes when scanning runs behind the scenes. Incentivized Brandon R Hudson Software 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	Broadcom No answers on this topic
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	Broadcom Positive - ROI for long term deployment Negative - Support Negative - Offline infra protection Positive - Product Features Incentivized AM Ankit Mistry IT Software Consultant Read full review
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