AWS CloudTrail Reviews

Name: AWS CloudTrail
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (8 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

8 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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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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Bireshwar Adhikary

Senior Consultant at ATOS

Jan 20, 2023

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

Jan 12, 2024

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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RANJAN KUMAR

DevOps Engineer at ZoomOps Technology

Feb 29, 2024

AWS CloudTrail is a service provider that enables complaints, operation auditing, and risk auditing for AWS accounts. CloudTrail logs API all across our AWS resources and maintains an event history for AWS accounts. The solution integrates with Amazon S3 buckets, and the logs are stored in the S3…

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AWS CloudTrail market share

As of March 2024, the market share of AWS CloudTrail in the User Activity Monitoring category stands at 12.5%, marking an increase of 50.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."
"AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do a visualization with Prometheus and Grafana."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Maybe if we could do direct queries on CloudTrail without needing to export it to Athena, that'd be great."