Question 1

What is AWS CloudTrail?

Accepted Answer

AWS 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, and troubleshooting. In addition, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in AWS accounts. These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.

Question 2

What are AWS CloudTrail's top competitors?

Accepted Answer

IBM Cloud Activity Tracker are common alternatives for AWS CloudTrail.

Question 3

Who uses AWS CloudTrail?

Accepted Answer

The most common users of AWS CloudTrail are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).