AWS CloudTrail Review
June 25, 2021
AWS CloudTrail Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AWS CloudTrail
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.
- AWS native service
- Extremely powerful
- Multi-region support
- Optional encryption
- File integrity validation
- [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging
- Logs can be difficult to decipher
- Multi-region support
- Log file integrity validation
- Integration with other AWS services like SNS / SQS
- "Always on"
- Saved us from purchasing and managing 3rd party solutions
- Satisfies Security/Governance requirements
- No upkeep/maintenance
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.
Do you think AWS CloudTrail delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with AWS CloudTrail's feature set?
Yes
Did AWS CloudTrail live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of AWS CloudTrail go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy AWS CloudTrail again?
Yes