AWS CloudTrail Pricing in 2026

Event history

90-day management event history · view, search, and download

Trail management events

Billed The first copy of management events is free

Deliver additional copies of management events to Amazon S3

Trail data events

Deliver data events to Amazon S3

Trail data event aggregation

Billed Charged in addition to data event charges

Deliver five-minute summaries of data events

Trail network activity events

Deliver network activity events to Amazon S3

CloudWatch Logs delivery

Billed CloudWatch Logs ingestion fees also apply

Deliver management and data events to a CloudWatch Logs group

CloudTrail Lake one-year extendable retention

Billed For CloudTrail management, data, and network activity events

366 days default retention · 3,653 days maximum retention

CloudTrail Lake seven-year retention

Billed First 5 TB per month; tiered rates apply above 5 TB

2,557 days retention

CloudTrail Lake trial

Billed 30 days or until free usage limits are reached, whichever comes first

Up to 5 GB ingested · up to 5 GB scanned · data retention at no additional cost · no longer open to new customers starting May 31, 2026

First trail copy

One copy of ongoing management events delivered to S3