CloudTrail waste check
Duplicate CloudTrail
duplicate_cloudtrail
What it finds
Duplicate CloudTrail: one of the CloudTrail checks in the management & operations group. Checks in this group look for: logging, tracing and management resources that keep data longer than needed, hold nothing, or are no longer used.
Why it costs money
Log ingestion and retention, trails, keys and dashboards each carry a recurring charge that keeps running after anyone looks at them.
How it is detected
Runs in the partner build and the paid hosted tiers.
AWS's own tools
AWS has a check on the same resource, with narrower or different criteria.
Checked against the AWS documentation.
Where this check runs
This check ships in the partner build, for consultancies that scan client accounts, and in the paid hosted tiers.