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# AWS CloudTrail

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> It is an API management solution that helps businesses manage auditing, operational troubleshooting, security monitoring, and more.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 19 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 19 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Amazon Web Services
- **Location**: Seattle, US
- **Founded**: 2006

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Please contact Amazon Web Services for pricing details.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Access Controls/Permissions
- Compliance Management
- Third-Party Integrations

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base

## Category

- [API Management Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31065/api-management/software)

## Related Categories

- [API Management Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31065/api-management/software)
- [Audit Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/30664/audit/software)
- [Privileged Access Management Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31238/privileged-access-management/software)

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3. [Scrut Automation](https://www.capterra.ie/software/1052809/scrut) — 4.9/5 (138 reviews)
4. [Netwrix Auditor](https://www.capterra.ie/software/164872/netwrix-auditor) — 4.5/5 (212 reviews)
5. [Hyperproof](https://www.capterra.ie/software/202536/hyperproof) — 4.8/5 (104 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Essential for Security & Compliance" — 5.0/5

> **Iddy** | *11 February 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: AWS CloudTrail is its ability to provide comprehensive visibility and audit logging for all AWS account activity. Here’s what stands out the most.
> 
> **Cons**: CloudTrail generates a huge number of logs, especially in environments with many AWS services and API calls.
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> AWS CloudTrail is an essential tool for security, compliance, and auditing in AWS environments. It provides detailed tracking of all API calls and user activities, making it a must-have for monitoring and governance.

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### "A Reliable Foundation for Governance and Security in AWS" — 5.0/5

> **Giovanny** | *24 December 2025* | Biotechnology | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: What I appreciate most about AWS CloudTrail is how it provides deep visibility and governance across all AWS account activity. For example:
Comprehensive Auditing and Transparency
 Strong Security Posture
Integration with Monitoring and Analytics
> 
> **Cons**: While AWS CloudTrail is a powerful auditing and governance tool, there are a few areas that can feel limiting or challenging in day‑to‑day enterprise use. For example:
Log Volume Can Become Overwhelming
Querying Logs Isn’t Always Straightforward
Event Delivery Latency
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> My overall experience with AWS CloudTrail has been very positive, especially from an enterprise and governance perspective. CloudTrail delivers the level of visibility, accountability, and traceability that’s essential for operating securely in AWS at scale.

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### "User activities on Cloud Trail" — 4.0/5

> **Sathish** | *2 December 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: We can track and audit all the AWS users api calls in a central dashboard.
> 
> **Cons**: In cloud trail, every API calls made by the users will cost you, so it is pretty expensive and compare to any other Cloud in the market.
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> It was good because we can track all the user activities

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### "AWS Cloudtrail the effective activity tracking tool for Cloud Infrastructure" — 5.0/5

> **Samuel** | *23 June 2024* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: Provides a view and analysis of all activity and operation on your AWS infrastructure.

Improves security and helps businesses with compliance by maintaining standard regulations, data encryption and archiving and compliance reporting. 

Integrated with other AWS services
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> **Cons**: Additional cost.

Might require technical expertise to effectively analyse reports

Filtering the data of interest Might be time consuming
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> Very easy to set up, just search for Cloudtrail and it begins to analyse and monitor activities on your organization AWS account.

One thing that really suits me in cloud services is the real time monitoring of activities.

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### "User controls and auditing" — 3.0/5

> **Andy** | *18 December 2022* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: Cloudtrail is important to monitor activities across multiple resources - such as programmatic changes that were made to resources or even bad actors since it fully logs all activities on AWS resources (such as various DBs).
> 
> **Cons**: The biggest challenge with using Cloudtrail is effectively filtering for activity you're interested in. This is more from the nature of the problem than Cloudtrail itself. The thoroughness of the information being logged within Cloudtrail includes quite a bit of information that is not necessarily relevant for incident management.

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