AWS CloudTrail Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Mainly we're using it for an audit trail of all actions done in AWS CloudTrail and for user activity of course. Moreover, our Dev-Ops were using it to debug AWS services, especially understanding what and why went wrong during the AWS CloudTrail setup or changes. The scope is mainly audit/logging of API calls and monitoring, mainly detecting unusual or suspicious activities.

Most probably it would be suitable for Finance industries, where security is at the head of the table. However, in our case for E-commerce, it's also quite suitable, since we have quite a significant amount of data and usage of AWS services. Especially with usage of AWS services, AWS CloudTrail comes into play as a heavy plus. For instance, troubleshooting any issues in AWS services is really nice.

Therefore, it would be less appropriate with a small amount of AWS service usage and some basic web hosting.

AWS CloudTrail is essential to our AWS architecture design. It is used by every single account within our AWS Organization (all accounts within the company). From the moment a child account is added to our organization, AWS CloudTrail is baked in and enforced for its entire lifespan. The business problem that it solves is mainly to satisfy requirements for our security and governance teams. On top of the security features, it allows the Cloud Admins to help our users troubleshoot and backtrack when issues arise.

Highly recommended. This is an essential service for any Cloud solution. There are probably other products that will accomplish these same objectives but AWS CloudTrail being an integrated native solution is very hard to beat. AWS CloudTrail can also be integrated with SNS, SQS and passed on-prem to data lakes or visualization tools.