ENAn application-level alternative to AWS CloudTrail
CloudTrail is AWS’s native audit service. It records management and API activity across AWS accounts — who called which AWS API, from where, with what result — and delivers logs to S3 or CloudTrail Lake for retention and query.
Apache-2.0 core · Verifies offline · Self-host or cloud
What AWS CloudTrail does well
- Unmatched coverage of AWS control-plane activity, enabled by default for management events.
- Organization trails aggregate accounts with no application changes.
- Log file integrity validation with signed digest files.
- Deep AWS ecosystem integration: S3, Athena, EventBridge, CloudTrail Lake.
Where Veritio differs
- Veritio records what your product and your agents did — application events, AI agent sessions, code changes, deployments, approvals — not AWS API calls. The two are complementary layers.
- Records are hash-linked at the application level and export to an open bundle format that a third party can verify with the open-source verifier, without an AWS account.
- Each event carries origin and a deterministic risk score under a published policy, so review queues can be sorted by risk rather than read linearly.
- The core is open source and self-hostable on your own Postgres; the managed service is optional.
Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | AWS CloudTrail | Veritio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Records | AWS API & management events | Application, agent, change & deploy events | |
| Scope | AWS accounts | Any app, any infrastructure | |
| Integrity | Signed digest files (within AWS) | Hash-linked chain, open verifier | |
| Risk model | — | Deterministic 0–1 scoring per policy | |
| Hosting | AWS only | Self-hosted (OSS) or managed | |
| Export audience | Your AWS tooling | Anyone, via open bundle + verifier | |
Comparison last reviewed August 2026. Products change — check vendor documentation for current behavior. Veritio provides evidence support for reviews and investigations, not automatic compliance.
Choose AWS CloudTrail when…
You need to audit AWS infrastructure activity itself — IAM changes, resource creation, console sign-ins. That is CloudTrail’s job and nothing else does it as completely inside AWS.
Choose Veritio when…
You need evidence of what your application and AI agents did — across clouds or on-prem — that reviewers outside your AWS account can independently verify.
Stronger together
CloudTrail for your cloud account, Veritio for your application and its agents — two layers of one audit story.