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CloudWatch vs CloudTrail: Understanding the Key Differences for AWS Monitoring

This blog post offers a comprehensive comparison of two critical AWS services for monitoring and logging: CloudWatch and CloudTrail. It clarifies their distinct functionalities and use cases to empower users to make informed decisions for their AWS environment.

CloudWatch is a monitoring service designed for AWS resources and applications. It collects metrics, monitors performance, offers alarms for anomalies, and provides log data analysis.

CloudTrail acts as a watchdog, meticulously recording AWS resource activity through API call history. This log data is invaluable for security analysis, compliance, and troubleshooting.

The blog highlights key features of each service, including:

CloudWatch: Metrics, alarms, logs, events, anomaly detection, custom dashboards.

CloudTrail: Activity logging, event history, multi-region support, data event logging, integration with other AWS services, log file encryption, and validation.

Use cases explored for each service include:

CloudWatch: System-wide monitoring, event detection and response, application performance monitoring, custom metrics, and disaster recovery.

CloudTrail: Change management, security and compliance monitoring, governance and auditing, and risk management.