G2 Vendor Directory

AWS CloudTrail vs. AWS CloudShell

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS CloudTrail

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS CloudShell

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.6
Review count10734
Ease of use8.69.3
Ease of setup9.29.6
Quality of support8.89.1
Meets requirements9.19.2
NPS63.04347879.411765
Small Business22.4%38.2%
Mid-Market37.4%41.2%
Enterprise40.2%20.6%
Total page views18481
Total LLM citations16860

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. It records actions taken by users, roles, or AWS services as events, capturing API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs. This comprehensive logging provides visibility into user activity and resource changes, facilitating security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Log Management
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • Easy Integrations
  • Integrations

AWS CloudShell

AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell environment that enables users to manage, explore, and interact with AWS resources directly from the AWS Management Console. It provides immediate access to a pre-authenticated Amazon Linux 2 environment with the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and other essential development tools pre-installed. This eliminates the need for local installation or configuration, streamlining cloud resource management and development workflows.

Pros

  • Access Convenience
  • Integrations
  • User Interface
  • Ease of Use