What I found most valuable in AWS CloudTrail is that it provides a good context of what's happening in the environment, so it's an excellent way to baseline what's occurring.
I also like that AWS CloudTrail helps with audits.
AWS CloudTrail is a central logging platform that monitors cloud events, aiding audits and enhancing security. It integrates with AWS Config, supporting custom event auditing. While excelling at scalability, it lacks console filtering and direct queries without Athena. Initial setup complexity and the need for operational visibility improvements are drawbacks. A redesign to capture non-API calls would enhance efficiency. Despite these, CloudTrail offers significant security gains through detailed monitoring.
