AWS CloudTrail: monitoring and logging. New demo!

New serie in Softprom Cloud Academy. AWS CloudTrail Services

Series: Monitoring and logging

Demo: “AWS CloudTrail: Event tracking and logging”, duration 11 minutes.

Features of AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail provides governance, compliance and audit for your AWS Account

• CloudTrail is enabled by default!
• Get an history of events / API calls made within your AWS Account by:
  • Console
  • SDK
  • CLI
• Can put logs from CloudTrail into CloudWatch Logs or S3
• CloudTrail Lake
• A trail can be applied to All Regions (default) or a single Region
• If a resource is deleted in AWS, investigate CloudTrail first!

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Why activate AWS CloudTrail Insights

Enable CloudTrail Insights to detect unusual activity in your account: 

• Inaccurate resource provisioning 
• Hitting service limits 
• Bursts of AWS IAM actions 
• Gaps in periodic maintenance activity 

CloudTrail Insights analyzes normal management events to create a baseline. And then continuously analyzes write events to detect unusual patterns 

• Anomalies appear in the CloudTrail console 
• Event is sent to Amazon S3 
• An EventBridge event is generated (for automation needs)

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