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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS CloudTrail

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of 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,…N/A

    Microsoft Sentinel

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is designed as a birds-eye view across the enterprise. It is presented as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response.

    $2.46

    per GB ingested

    Pricing
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
    Editions & Modules
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    Azure Sentinel
    $2.46
    per GB ingested
    100 GB per day
    $123.00
    per day
    200 GB per day
    $221.40
    per day
    300 GB per day
    $319.80
    per day
    400 GB per day
    $410.00
    per day
    500 GB per day
    $492.00
    per day
    More than 500 GB per day
    $492.00 + $98.40
    per day/plus each additional 100 GB increment
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsYou can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.—
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    Community Pulse
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
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    98%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    Features
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of AWS CloudTrail and Microsoft Sentinel
    Feature
    AWS CloudTrail
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Sentinel
    7.3
    24 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings8.324 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings7.124 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings6.924 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings6.422 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings5.020 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings6.522 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings6.920 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings7.922 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.221 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.622 Ratings
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    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
    Small Businesses
    Armor
    Score6 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Trend Micro Deep Security
    Score8 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Wiz
    Score8.2 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Sentinel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Sentinel excels in centralized monitoring, AI-driven threat detection, and automation, but improvements in cost transparency, user experience, third-party integrations, and support for emerging technologies could make it even more effective. Addressing these areas would enhance its appeal for small-to-medium businesses, large enterprises, and organizations with complex or specialized IT environments.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • API Log
    • User activity tracking
    • Real-time alerts
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    Microsoft
    • I appreciate that it keeps the data within our, what we call our, authorization boundary. The fact that the data remains within Microsoft's, I guess, walled garden if you will, is very helpful for certain compliance needs in particular.
    • The large library of ingestion: ability to ingest is basically as easy as I can basically get it to be most of the time. There's occasionally some vendors that it's a little bit more challenging for, but given the ease of integration for a lot of things, basically it's become one of my requirements when I am looking at other tools is how easily do they integrate with Sentinel.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging
    • Logs can be difficult to decipher
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    Microsoft
    • I think it should include more third party integration with non microsoft products as well as with other cloud providers. These integrations should be native.
    • It should improve ML and AI capabilities.
    • I find its documentation a little bit difficult to understand at the start. So the words should be simple.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    it does the job reasonably well
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The Microsoft Azure Sentinel solution is very good and even better if you use Azure. It's easy to implement and learn how to use the tool with an intuitive and simple interface. New updates are happening to always bring new news and improve the experience and usability. The solution brings reliability as it is from a very reliable manufacturer.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies.
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    Microsoft
    We decided to go with Microsoft Sentinel because it works really well with Microsoft tools we are already using. Microsoft Sentinel's intelligent features detect and resolve problems more quickly than Sumo Logic. It also allows us to pay for what we use and grow as we need. While Sumo Logic is good at analyzing data, Microsoft Sentinel fits our needs.
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    Professional Services
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Did not use professional services
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
    • Increases security
    • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
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    Microsoft
    • As any cybersecurity product, this has to be more with risk to avoid loss in case of a ransomware that more than relate to a productivity increase. Maybe the impact could be that instead of having people that are checking 24/7 the dashboard, you could implement Sentinel and have less people checking that or people with less expertise. So the saving will be a minor but will be a saving in the cost of your team.
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    ScreenShots

    AWS CloudTrail Screenshots

    Screenshot of CloudTrail Insights: Identify and respond to unusual operational activity
•Unexpected spikes in resource provisioning
•Bursts of IAM management actions
•Gaps in periodic maintenance activity
•Automatic analysis of API calls and usage patterns
•Alerts when unusual activity is detected

    Microsoft Sentinel Screenshots

    Product screenshotProduct screenshotScreenshot of Microsoft Sentinel Capabilities