What is AWS CloudTrail?

✔ Audit, monitor and troubleshoot by tracking user activity and API usage.

✔ Protect your organization from penalties using CloudTrail logs to prove compliance with regulations such as SOC, PCI, and HIPAA.

✔ Improve your security posture by recording user activity and events, and set up automated workflow rules with Amazon EventBridge.

✔ Capture and consolidate user activity and API usage across AWS Regions and accounts on a single, centrally controlled platform.

Introduction to AWS CloudTrail (1:30)

Use Cases

Audit Activity

Monitor, store, and validate activity events for authenticity. Easily generate audit reports required by internal policies and external regulations.

Identify Security Incidents
Detect unauthorized access using the Who, What, and When information in CloudTrail Events. Respond with rules-based EventBridge alerts and automated workflows.
Troubleshoot Operational Issues
Continuously monitor API usage history using machine learning (ML) models to spot unusual activity in your AWS accounts, and determine root cause.
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AWS CloudTrail

Log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure.

ALWAYS FREE

View, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services.

Set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events.

Additional rates will apply for any data event and for additional copies of management events beyond the first copy in each region. See product information for more detail

AWS CloudTrail pricing

Free Tier Offer

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AWS CloudTrail
Log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure.
ALWAYS FREE

View, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services.

Set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events.

Additional rates will apply for any data event and for additional copies of management events beyond the first copy in each region. See product information for more detail

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