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CloudTrail

Overview

  • Governance, compliant and audit for the AWS account.
  • Enabled by default.
  • History of events/API calls.
  • Can put logs from CloudTrail into CloudWatch.
  • If a resource is deleted, look at CloudTrail first.
  • Need to chose what log events to record.

Log Events

Event Description
Management Event Management operations performed on AWS resources. Can exclude KMS events.
Data Event Resource operations performed on/within AWS resources (S3 or Lambda).
Insights Event Unusual activity, errors, or user behaviour.

Last update: June 30, 2021