AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retention

Today, AWS CloudTrail Lake announces a one-year extendable retention pricing option that is optimized for flexible data retention needs. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. With the one-year extendable retention pricing, the first year of retention is included with ingestion charges. You may choose to extend the retention period to a maximum of 10 years by paying extended retention charges after the first year. Compliance, audit, security, and operations teams can use the new pricing option for cost-effective retention of auditable data sources in alignment with compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, as well as for forensic and operational investigations. This pricing option is available in addition to CloudTrail Lake's existing pricing option, which comes with 7 years of retention included with ingestion charges. If you are currently using the seven-year retention pricing option and have a monthly usage of under 25 TB, you may experience cost savings by switching to the new one-year extendable retention pricing. When you create a new CloudTrail Lake event data store, you can choose between the one-year extendable retention pricing, which is the default, or the seven-year retention pricing. Event data stores created prior to this announcement will remain on the seven-year retention pricing, but can be converted to the new pricing option by using the CloudTrail console, CLI, or SDK. For details, see [CloudTrail pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/pricing/) and examples. This new pricing option is available in all AWS Regions where [CloudTrail Lake is available](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-lake-supported-regions.html).