AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retention
Today, AWS CloudTrail Lake announces a one-year extendable retention pricing option that is optimized for flexible data retention needs. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. With the one-year extendable retention pricing, the first year of retention is included with ingestion charges. You may choose to extend the retention period to a maximum of 10 years by paying extended retention charges after the first year. Compliance, audit, security, and operations teams can use the new pricing option for cost-effective retention of auditable data sources in alignment with compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, as well as for forensic and operational investigations.
Today, AWS CloudTrail Lake announces a one-year extendable retention pricing option that is optimized for flexible data retention needs. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. With the one-year extendable retention pricing, the first year of retention is included with ingestion charges. You may choose to extend the retention period to a maximum of 10 years by paying extended retention charges after the first year. Compliance, audit, security, and operations teams can use the new pricing option for cost-effective retention of auditable data sources in alignment with compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, as well as for forensic and operational investigations.
This pricing option is available in addition to CloudTrail Lake's existing pricing option, which comes with 7 years of retention included with ingestion charges. If you are currently using the seven-year retention pricing option and have a monthly usage of under 25 TB, you may experience cost savings by switching to the new one-year extendable retention pricing.
When you create a new CloudTrail Lake event data store, you can choose between the one-year extendable retention pricing, which is the default, or the seven-year retention pricing. Event data stores created prior to this announcement will remain on the seven-year retention pricing, but can be converted to the new pricing option by using the CloudTrail console, CLI, or SDK.
For details, see CloudTrail pricing and examples. This new pricing option is available in all AWS Regions where CloudTrail Lake is available.