AWS CloudTrail vs. AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	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,…	N/A
AWS Trusted Advisor	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides users real time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor are designed to help keep solutions provisioned optimally.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Trusted Advisor

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

You 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 CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Considered Both Products	AWS CloudTrail AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Chose AWS CloudTrail We mainly needed to focus on logging and auditing of AWS services and activity, while Datadog & New Relic are more about performance monitoring and analytics. Moreover, AWS CloudTrail has a seamless integration with AWS, since it's coming from one bucket of products. So having … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail Our company has not used any alternatives. Within our industry, it seems that AWS CloudTrail is the defacto standard for this type of functionality within the AWS environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail 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. Incentivized Helpful?	AWS Trusted Advisor Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Chose AWS Trusted Advisor It does a good job not only it provides cost estimation but also it provides security measures that we have to take to make sure that we are not vulnerable to attacks. It also gives a performance report which helps to analyze the resource allocation and free resources more … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Small Businesses	Armor Score 6.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	IBM Turbonomic Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	vRealize Operations (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	AWS Trusted Advisor
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	It is well suited for an organization that uses AWS tools and technologies. as AWS is very popular in the market. you can use almost any service with it. the only thing is your organization must be using AWS services. It is not also cheap so the price can be the issue. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Pros	Logs details Easy implementation Great support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cost Optimization Effective use of services Performance Report Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Cons	Delay User interface, must send logs elsewhere to view them Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Although It Provides very good recommendations some times they do not seem logical. Cost estimation can be improved further for particular services Need to have a business or Enterprise plan to access you can give some trial period to try Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It does a good job not only it provides cost estimation but also it provides security measures that we have to take to make sure that we are not vulnerable to attacks. It also gives a performance report which helps to analyze the resource allocation and free resources more effectively. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved us from purchasing and managing 3rd party solutions Satisfies Security/Governance requirements No upkeep/maintenance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Optimized resources less security attacks Saved from overbudget Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
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