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How does AWS CloudTrail work?

Last updated on September 25, 2022 @ 6:15 pm

AWS CloudTrail is a service that helps you track the activity in your AWS account, including EC2 instances, S3 objects, and CloudTrail logs. You can use CloudTrail to audit your AWS usage and improve your understanding of how your applications are performing.

When you create an AWS CloudTrail log entry, AWS CloudTrail copies the log data to an Amazon S3 bucket. You can then use the Amazon S3 tools to access, search, and analyze the logs.

CloudTrail provides a way to track changes to your AWS resources, so you can detect and investigate problems. By using CloudTrail, you can also create reports that show you the activity in your account over time.

You can use CloudTrail to answer the following questions:

What resources were used in my account?

What were the most popular resources in my account?

What were the most active resources in my account?

What was the cause of a resource usage spike?

How did my applications perform over time?

How do I improve my understanding of how my applications are performing?

PRO TIP: AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. CloudTrail is useful for monitoring user activity, auditing API calls, and troubleshooting issues with AWS resources.

CloudTrail is free for AWS accounts with at least one active EC2 instance. You can use CloudTrail to track the activity in your AWS account, including EC2 instances, S3 objects, and CloudTrail logs.

You can use CloudTrail to audit your AWS usage and improve your understanding of how your applications are performing.

To use CloudTrail, you first create an AWS account and create an Amazon S3 bucket to store the CloudTrail logs. Then, you create an Amazon S3 bucket policy that allows CloudTrail to copy the logs to the bucket.

You can use this policy to restrict access to the logs to authorized users.

CloudTrail is a service that helps you track the activity in your AWS account, including.

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