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What is AWS CloudTrail?

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…

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A must-have tool-kit for cloud auditing and monitoring

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 4, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Mainly we're using it for an audit trail of all actions done in AWS CloudTrail and for user activity of course. Moreover, our Dev-Ops were using it to debug AWS services, espe...
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Anton Smyslov
Project Manager - Information Technology
Product Owner
Sunday
AWS CloudTrail2 years of experience

Dive deeper to your logs and understand everything using CloudTrail

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 23, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have adopted CloudTrail in order to facilitate our log management. The level of details is so good and it has been used a lot to make our product even better. We mainly use...
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Employee
AWS CloudTrail1 year of experience

Cloudtrail - Indispensable logging & audit tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 8, 2021
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AWS CloudTrail is used for governance, compliance and investigating API usage across all of our AWS accounts. Every action that is taken by a user or script is an API call so ...
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Administrator
AWS CloudTrail2 years of experience

AWS CloudTrail Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 25, 2021
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AWS CloudTrail is essential to our AWS architecture design. It is used by every single account within our AWS Organization (all accounts within the company). From the moment a...
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AWS CloudTrail2 years of experience
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Anton Smyslov
Product Owner
Sunday (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
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What is AWS CloudTrail?

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…

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Product Demos

AWS CloudTrail - Part 4 - DEMO | CloudTrail Logs from multiple accounts to one S3 Bucket | Pricing

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Product Details

What is AWS CloudTrail?

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of AWS accounts. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across the AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides an event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. Once enabled, users get a CloudTrail with all Management Events automatically and at no charge. Then, users also have several different data event sources that can opt in to depending on particular applications and compliance needs. This event history is yet another source of observability data that AWS provides which simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.

AWS CloudTrail Features

  • Supported: Audit Trails
  • Supported: Event Delivery
  • Supported: Search and Analytics
  • Supported: CloudTrail Insights

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

AWS CloudTrail Videos

AWS CloudTrail: Simplify Security Analysis, Resource Change Tracking, and Troubleshooting
Monitor Unusual Activity in AWS Accounts using CloudTrail Insights
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AWS CloudTrail Integrations

  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Amazon CloudWatch Events

AWS CloudTrail Competitors

  • IBM Cloud Activity Tracker
  • Google Cloud Audit Log
  • Alibaba Cloud Action Trail
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging/Audit
  • Azure Monitor and Security Logging

AWS CloudTrail Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesVirginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, Montreal, Sao Paulo, GovCloud US West, GovCloud US East, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Bahrain, Cape Town, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing Ningxia, Osaka
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Reviews and Ratings

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A must-have tool-kit for cloud auditing and monitoring

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 04, 2024
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Anton Smyslov
Product Owner
Sunday (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS CloudTrail
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Mainly we're using it for an audit trail of all actions done in AWS CloudTrail and for user activity of course. Moreover, our Dev-Ops were using it to debug AWS services, especially understanding what and why went wrong during the AWS CloudTrail setup or changes. The scope is mainly audit/logging of API calls and monitoring, mainly detecting unusual or suspicious activities.
Pros and Cons
  • API Log
  • User activity tracking
  • Real-time alerts
Likelihood to Recommend
Most probably it would be suitable for Finance industries, where security is at the head of the table. However, in our case for E-commerce, it's also quite suitable, since we have quite a significant amount of data and usage of AWS services. Especially with usage of AWS services, AWS CloudTrail comes into play as a heavy plus. For instance, troubleshooting any issues in AWS services is really nice.

Therefore, it would be less appropriate with a small amount of AWS service usage and some basic web hosting.
Return on Investment
  • Enhanced security of course
  • Quick troubleshooting
  • Readiness for audit (significant time saver)
Alternatives Considered
We mainly needed to focus on logging and auditing of AWS services and activity, while Datadog & New Relic are more about performance monitoring and analytics. Moreover, AWS CloudTrail has a seamless integration with AWS, since it's coming from one bucket of products. So having all pros and cons in our case management decided to go with AWS CloudTrail.
Other Software Used

Dive deeper to your logs and understand everything using CloudTrail

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 23, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS CloudTrail
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have adopted CloudTrail in order to facilitate our log management. The level of details is so good and it has been used a lot to make our product even better. We mainly use it to monitor our API activities and based on that we have some reports to understand better our usage.
Pros and Cons
  • Logs details
  • Easy implementation
  • Great support
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a system mainly based on API's or at least want to understand better your API's usage, you definitely should adopt CloudTrail, of course, it's much useful when your entire network is on AWS and it can be a powered tool to have an overview of everything that is going on around.
Most Important Features
  • Log Monitoring
  • Integration with our services
Return on Investment
  • Since we started using CloudTrail, we could understand better our product usage and consequently understand our customer's profiles.
Alternatives Considered
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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Cloudtrail - Indispensable logging & audit tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 08, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS CloudTrail
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AWS CloudTrail is used for governance, compliance and investigating API usage across all of our AWS accounts.
Every action that is taken by a user or script is an API call so this is logged to [AWS] Cloudtrail. This is critical in keeping a close eye on what users are doing in AWS.
Pros and Cons
  • Implementation - easy across organisation/accounts
  • AWS support
  • Detailed logs
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Most Important Features
  • Logging
  • Ease of use
Return on Investment
  • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
  • Increases security
  • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
Alternatives Considered
For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does.
We did not evaluate any other products.
Other Software Used

AWS CloudTrail Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS CloudTrail
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AWS CloudTrail is essential to our AWS architecture design. It is used by every single account within our AWS Organization (all accounts within the company). From the moment a child account is added to our organization, AWS CloudTrail is baked in and enforced for its entire lifespan. The business problem that it solves is mainly to satisfy requirements for our security and governance teams. On top of the security features, it allows the Cloud Admins to help our users troubleshoot and backtrack when issues arise.
Pros and Cons
  • AWS native service
  • Extremely powerful
  • Multi-region support
  • Optional encryption
  • File integrity validation
Likelihood to Recommend
Highly recommended. This is an essential service for any Cloud solution. There are probably other products that will accomplish these same objectives but AWS CloudTrail being an integrated native solution is very hard to beat. AWS CloudTrail can also be integrated with SNS, SQS and passed on-prem to data lakes or visualization tools.
Most Important Features
  • Multi-region support
  • Log file integrity validation
  • Integration with other AWS services like SNS / SQS
  • "Always on"
Return on Investment
  • Saved us from purchasing and managing 3rd party solutions
  • Satisfies Security/Governance requirements
  • No upkeep/maintenance
Alternatives Considered
Our company has not used any alternatives. Within our industry, it seems that AWS CloudTrail is the defacto standard for this type of functionality within the AWS environment.
Other Software Used
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