AWS CloudTrail Reviews

Name: AWS CloudTrail
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (9 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

9 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is AWS CloudTrail?

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of your 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, and troubleshooting. In addition, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in your AWS accounts. These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.

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AWS CloudTrail is the #3 ranked solution in top User Activity Monitoring solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS CloudTrail an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. AWS CloudTrail is most commonly compared to CyberArk Privileged Access Manager: AWS CloudTrail vs CyberArk Privileged Access Manager.

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Featured reviews

Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

Our company uses the solution to monitor cloud services. All cloud activities are stored in the solution. We check the solution's logs and compare them to CloudWatch. The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events. For example, it records new users and their…

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MuhammadMuhammad

Information Security Officer at Habib InsuranceSecurity Officer Habib Insurance

We use AWS CloudTrail as a complete data centre. It is working on a cloud. We have different operating systems. We have completely deployed in the cloud. There are requirement variations depending on the organisation and their specific needs. There are fundamental concepts related to deployment…

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Abhijit Gautam

Cloud - Solution Architect at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

AWS CloudTrail's most valuable feature in enhancing your compliance audit is that it gives me the ability to search for users who have made different API calls, which is something I find really helpful in AWS in most cases. I searched for the user who made that API call or identified it easily by using the search feature in AWS CloudTrail. My company has integrated AWS CloudTrail with Amazon EventBridge and Amazon Athena. When we integrated AWS CloudTrail with Amazon Athena, we could easily enhance our analysis. For example, if I want to identify the trend and isolate some activity by attribute or source IP address, then I will use CloudTrail logs integrated with Amazon Athena. I could easily isolate activities associated with the source IP address. The tool is easy to use, and I rate it seven out of ten. You need to have some knowledge of AWS CloudTrail because you have to run some queries or filter the source IP address. You should have some knowledge about the tool. I recommend the tool to others. I have not used the tool's AI capabilities. I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

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AWS CloudTrail mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of AWS CloudTrail in the User Activity Monitoring category stands at 10.9%, up from 8.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"From a scalability point of view, the tool has no issue, and it is completely fine."
"In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the employees' activities, revealing that they were downloading specific files from our customer's environment. Without it enabled, we wouldn't have been aware of this."
"AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Config and provides custom event, security, and compliance auditing."

Room for Improvement

"The product's initial setup phase is not pretty straightforward."
"Once the organization defines its policies, it must immediately enable AWS CloudTrail and integrate it with auto-remediation procedures using Lambda functions. This ensures that the main administrator can receive information quickly and on time without delay."
"The solution's operation visibility could be improved."