G2 Vendor Directory

AWS CloudTrail

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

107

Reviews

4.4

Star rating

#10

Rank in Other Development

Pros and cons

Pros

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

Cons

  • Inadequate Logging
  • Expensive
  • Data Limitations
  • Project Delays
  • Difficult Learning
  • Poor UI

Traffic & LLM citations

Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for AWS CloudTrail.

Page views and citations · AWS CloudTrail

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Winning from

Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

Losing to

Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from AWS CloudTrail.

Key stats

-100.0%

63

Enterprise

1

Adoption by company size

SegmentShare of reviews
Small Business22.4%
Mid-Market37.4%
Enterprise40.2%

Quarterly history

QuarterReviewsStar rating
2024 Q424.8
2025 Q314.5
2025 Q414.0
2026 Q244.4

Satisfaction ratings

Ease of Use8.6
Ease of Setup9.2
Quality of Support8.8
Meets Requirements9.1

What reviewers say

Centralized AWS Auditing with Clear, Fine-Grained CloudTrail Visibility

5.0

“We use AWS CloudTrail for auditing and visibility across AWS services in a centralized way. It helps us track every API call and user activity across our AWS environment through CloudTrail logs. The best thing I like is being able to audit data pipeline activity using AWS CloudTr”

data engineer

Great Visibility with CloudTrail, but Query Speed and Cost Can Be Issues

4.0

“Cloud Trail gives you end-to-end operational visibility — critical for troubleshooting, auditing, and securing cloud networks; This is the best about it”

Network Engineer

Inspector Gadget on steroids

4.5

“CloudTrail has been most benefitial in audit and troubleshooting issues. I can't think of working on AWS cloud without using CloudTail. Its been used for all projects.”

Associate Cloud Architect