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Cloudtrail - Indispensable logging & audit tool
July 08, 2021

Cloudtrail - Indispensable logging & audit tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS CloudTrail

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.
  • Implementation - easy across organisation/accounts
  • AWS support
  • Detailed logs
  • Delay
  • User interface, must send logs elsewhere to view them
  • Logging
  • Ease of use
  • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
  • Increases security
  • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
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.

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

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.