TRAILOX FOR AMAZON S3

Understand every access path into your S3 data

See which identities, applications, SDKs, and AWS services interact with your buckets, prefixes, and objects. Detect behavioral changes, investigate historical activity, and understand how S3 is actually being used.

THE PROBLEM

S3 generates access data. Turning it into security context is the hard part.

Raw activity is difficult to investigate

High-volume S3 access telemetry is fragmented and expensive to operationalize at scale.

Permissions do not explain behavior

IAM tells you what an identity can do. It does not tell you whether what it just did is normal.

Applications change constantly

New services, SDKs, workloads, roles, and access paths appear over time, often without security teams noticing.

"We watch actual behavior, not just config. That's a completely different signal."

HI

Head of Infrastructure Security

E-commerce, $400M ARR

WHAT TRAILOX SHOWS YOU

Understand S3 access from identity to object

IAM Sankey
RoleActionBucketRequests
glue-etl-roles3:GetObjectdata-lake-prod
4.2M
lambda-processors3:PutObjectevents-raw
890K
arn::913...s3:ListBucketbilling-prod
18KNew reader
athena-querys3:GetObjectanalytics-parquet
2.1M
ci-deploy-roles3:PutObjectdata-lake-prod
12KIaC drift

Access relationships

Map identities and applications to buckets, prefixes, objects, and operations.

Behavioral intelligence

Learn normal resources, volume, timing, operations, and client fingerprints for every identity.

etl-pipeline-role · Baseline vs Now
Buckets accessed
33
Unique prefixes
1227+125%
GET requests/day
840K9.1M+10x
Hours active
06:00-22:0000:00-23:5924h window
Avg object size
128MB4.2MBsmall files
First seen prefix
-pii-exports/NEW
Service Auto-Detection
AWS Glue
glue-etl-roledata-lake-prod
2m ago
Athena
athena-queryanalytics-parquet
5m ago
AWS Lambda
lambda-processorevents-raw
12m ago
Amazon EMR
emr-batch-roledata-lake-prod
3h ago
Amazon Firehose
firehose-roleevents-raw
18s ago
Unknown principalNEW
arn::791...billing-prod
34m ago

Identity and client attribution

Connect IAM identities to AWS services, SDKs, runtimes, applications, and external clients.

Detect meaningful changes in access behavior

  • First-seen readers and writers
  • New buckets, prefixes, and access paths
  • Sudden changes in read or write volume
  • New SDKs, clients, or execution environments
  • Activity outside established behavioral patterns
HOW IT WORKS
01

Connect

Read-only IAM role. 5-min setup.

02

Map

Live Sankey of every S3 request.

03

Baseline

Per-role learning over rolling 30-day window.

04

Alert

Slack/webhook on drift, anomaly, or new principal.

CASE STUDY
Featured

4 Dead ETL Pipelines Caught by S3 Write Pattern Monitoring

How a platform team discovered four Glue ETL pipelines silently reporting success while writing zero bytes, caught via S3 write pattern anomalies, not query failures.

Read Full Case Study

See how your S3 data is actually being accessed.

Connect Trailox using read-only access and turn native S3 telemetry into searchable security intelligence.

Get a Demo