AWS CloudTrail
Track and analyze AWS API activity across cloud environments for governance, compliance, and security
About AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail provides comprehensive logging of user activity, API usage, and resource changes across AWS, hybrid, and multicloud environments. It enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and security investigations with features like immutable event storage, anomaly detection, and SQL-based querying. CloudTrail supports compliance with regulations such as SOC, PCI, and HIPAA while helping organizations monitor and secure their AWS infrastructure.
Pricing
Full pricing pageAWS Free Tier
Free tier includes 90-day event history, one free copy of management events to S3, and a 30-day free trial of CloudTrail Lake.
- 90-day event history
- One free copy of management events to S3
- 30-day free trial of CloudTrail Lake
Paid Tier Trails
Pay-as-you-go pricing for additional management, data, and network activity events delivered to S3.
- Management events delivered to Amazon S3: $2.00 per 100,000 events
- Data events delivered to Amazon S3: $0.10 per 100,000 events
- Data events aggregations delivered to Amazon S3: $0.03 per 100,000 events
- Network activity events delivered to Amazon S3: $0.10 per 100,000 events
Paid Tier CloudWatch Logs delivery
Pricing for delivering CloudTrail events to CloudWatch Logs.
- CloudTrail management and data events delivered to CloudWatch Logs group: $0.25/GB
Paid Tier Insights
Pricing for CloudTrail Insights based on events analyzed.
- CloudTrail Insights for management events: $0.35 per 100,000 events
- CloudTrail Insights for data events: $0.03 per 100,000 events
Paid Tier Lake - One-year extendable retention
Pricing for CloudTrail Lake with one-year extendable retention.
- Data ingestion: $0.75/GB for CloudTrail management, data, and network activity events
- Data ingestion: $0.50/GB for other AWS and non-AWS auditable data sources
- Data queries: $0.005/GB of data scanned
- First 5 TB/month: $2.5 per GB
- Next 20 TB/month: $1 per GB
- Over 25 TB/month: $0.50 per GB
Paid Tier Lake - Seven-year retention
Pricing for CloudTrail Lake with seven-year retention.
- Data ingestion: $2.5/GB for first 5 TB/month
- Data ingestion: $1/GB for next 20 TB/month
- Data ingestion: $0.50/GB for over 25 TB/month
- Data queries: $0.005/GB of data scanned
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