AWS CloudTrail


  • Provides governance, compliance, and audit for AWS account
  • Enabled by default
  • Get a history of events/API calls made within the AWS account by:
    • Console
    • SDK
    • CLI
    • AWS Services
  • Can put logs from CloudTrail into CloudWatch Logs or S3
  • A trail can be applied to All Regions (default) or a single Region

CloudTrail Events

  • Management Events
  • Data Events
  • CloudTrail Insights Events

CloudTrail Insights

  • Enable CloudTrail Insights to detect unusual activity in the account

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