---
id: 2914
title: "AWS CloudWatchs vs. CloudTrail - What's the Difference?"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/aws-cloudwatchs-vs-cloudtrail-whats-difference"
published_at: "2020-11-30T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "aws", "devops", "monitoring", "cloudwatch", "cloudtrail"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2914"
lang: en
---

# AWS CloudWatchs vs. CloudTrail - What's the Difference?

## Summary

Clarifies the difference between two AWS services: CloudWatch for monitoring performance, logs, alarms and events versus CloudTrail for auditing API activity.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2020-11-30T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/aws-cloudwatchs-vs-cloudtrail-whats-difference
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2914