# Amazon CloudTrail

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudtrail/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

AWS CloudTrail enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account by tracking user activity and API usage across AWS environments, hybrid setups, and multicloud deployments with immutable audit trails.

## Kin Score — 51.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 50.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 69.9 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 26.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (3)

- **Amazon CloudTrail Event Data Stores API** — Operations for managing CloudTrail Lake event data stores
- **Amazon CloudTrail Events API** — Operations for looking up and querying events
- **Amazon CloudTrail Trails API** — Operations for creating and managing CloudTrail trails

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon CloudTrail MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Cloudtrail Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 4 acting

## Security (3)

- **Amazon Cloudtrail Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Cloudtrail Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Cloudtrail Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Use cases (4)

- **Compliance Auditing** — Demonstrate adherence to SOC, PCI DSS, and HIPAA regulations with audit logs.
- **Security Monitoring** — Record and monitor user and API activity for security incident detection.
- **Operational Debugging** — Investigate operational issues by querying historical API activity.
- **Governance** — Track who made changes to AWS resources and when for governance accountability.

## Tags

CloudTrail, Audit, Compliance, Governance, Security

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudtrail/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.