CloudTrail Pricing Calculator - Trails, Lake & Insights Costs
CloudTrail pricing calculator for Trails and Lake. Estimate AWS CloudTrail costs for management events, data events, network activity, Insights analysis, and Lake storage with one-year or seven-year retention options.
Reference pricesExample monthly cost in US East (N. Virginia)
2 million management events (second copy) and 5 million data events per month in CloudTrail trails, priced by this calculator at AWS list prices.
Estimated total: $45.00 per month
| Breakdown | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Management Events | $40.00 |
| ↳ 2M @ $2.00/100K | $40.00 |
| Data Events | $5.00 |
| ↳ 5M @ $0.10/100K | $5.00 |
Priced on 15 Oct 2026 from CloudBurn's AWS price data. Prices in USD, excluding tax.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between CloudTrail Trails and CloudTrail Lake?
CloudTrail Trails deliver events to S3 buckets and optionally to CloudWatch Logs. The first copy of management events is free. CloudTrail Lake is a managed, query-ready event data store for SQL-style investigation without extra infrastructure.
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