AWS CloudTrail Reviews

Name: AWS CloudTrail
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

10 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 #2 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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Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events. For example, it records new users and their activities or events. When you open the solution, you get good details about what has been going on for the entire day. The auditing and compliance points of view are good.

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MuhammadMuhammad

Information Security Officer at Habib InsuranceSecurity Officer Habib Insurance

The setup experience was very bad. Initially, when we began migrating our teams and configuring systems like AWS CloudTrail, we encountered some complications. Understanding the administration and navigating access loops resulted in numerous emails. However, after three or four years of experience, we understand the platform. Five to seven people including support are required for deployment. I rate the initial setup a six out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

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NabeelHassan

AWS Trainer at National Vocational and Technical Training Commission

More controls should be introduced in CloudTrail, especially to see the logs in CloudTrail itself without saving them in S3, as S3 starts to incur charges. Real-time log submission could be improved, as sometimes there is a lag of around two to three minutes, which should be under a minute.

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AWS CloudTrail mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of AWS CloudTrail in the User Activity Monitoring category stands at 10.3%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The management events and CloudTrail Insights are valuable."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"More controls should be introduced in CloudTrail, especially to see the logs in CloudTrail itself without saving them in S3, as S3 starts to incur charges."
"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."