AWS CloudTrail vs. Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

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
Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)	Score 7.5 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Vulcan Cyber was an exposure and vulnerability risk mitigation platform, acquired by Tenable in early 2025. The product is no longer available for sale, and functionality has been integrated into the Tenable One Exposure Management platform's vulnerability solution.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
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	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
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?	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) Acronis Cyber Protect Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) I wasn't here at the time when the company compared different vulnerability management platforms so I'm not sure on the reasoning and difference between the 2. It could be that the team went through different choices and found Vulcan to be the best fit. It's hard for me to say … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) My role is not in charge of selecting more services or products like Vulcan. I just use them as part of my daily responsibilities. Maybe other roles can give more feedback about this. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) Nucleus Security was missing some connectors and was more focused on risk prioritization than ticketing automation. Seemplicity had a different billing method that may have ended up being more expensive. Also a younger app. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) Vulcan Cyber has a more mature platform catered for enterprise customers compared to Nucleus. The very close support and attention to detail of the Vulcan sales and technical team also helped in answering any possible question we had about the platform or take note of our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) The competitors were either more complex to implement or higher cost for similar capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) Vulcan was easier to implement with our existing Security environment. The UX and UI were more intuitive and user-friendly. While SOAR is a super solid product, for our business Vulcan made more sense. It was more of a natural fit for a rapidly-expanding company in a … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

AWS CloudTrail

Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

Threat Intelligence

Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudTrail - Ratings	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) 7.9 Ratings 0% below category average
Network Analytics	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Vulnerability Classification	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Automated Alerts and Reporting	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Threat Analysis	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Automated Threat Identification	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Vulnerability Management Tools

Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudTrail - Ratings	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average
IT Asset Realization	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Configuration Monitoring	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Vulnerability Intelligence	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudTrail	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Armor Score 6.0 out of 10	Action1 Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	Action1 Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.2 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
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	We use Vulcan Cyber to help with the technical debt accrued over time with systems that were not maintained as well as they should be. To combat this, we use the campaign feature to keep a running tab on every system to ensure it is brought up to standards and maintained. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Logs details Easy implementation Great support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The user interface makes it very easy to use. It provides a clear picture and helps us to make decisions. It offers automation and risk visibility. Incentivized MC Michael Cerruti Data Analyst Read full review
Cons	Delay User interface, must send logs elsewhere to view them Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Deduping of assets could be better. The weighting of vulnerabilities is hard to describe to non technical executives. The Business Groups and Tagging needs improvement. Or at least allow tags to be removed if not needed. Now they are static from the API feed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Vulcan was easier to implement with our existing Security environment. The UX and UI were more intuitive and user-friendly. While SOAR is a super solid product, for our business Vulcan made more sense. It was more of a natural fit for a rapidly-expanding company in a hyper-growth phase using Edge technology. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Allows much better prioritizing of which assets are most vulnerable Allow a better understanding of what assets are actually under real threat vs. what is assumed to be vulnerable, but the real world fact is the system would be hard to reach internally, so it's not as vulnerable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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