What is AWS Cloud Trail?
AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files. It provides an event history of your AWS account activity, including actions made through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command-line tools, and other AWS services. The recorded information includes the API caller's identity, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service.
Why use AWS CloudTrail?
AWS CloudTrail enhances user activity visibility by recording AWS console actions and API calls. It allows governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. You can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in your AWS accounts, ongoing trends, and operational issues. AWS CloudTrail simplifies compliance auditing, reduces time to troubleshoot systems or operational issues, and enables you to be more proactive in securing your AWS environment against threats.
Use Cases
Security Analysis and Auditing: CloudTrail logs all API activity, which aids in performing security analysis, tracking changes to AWS resources, and conducting incident response.
Operational Troubleshooting: CloudTrail records and stores event logs to help identify operational issues and their root causes. This allows for faster understanding and correcting of operational issues.
Compliance Aid: Companies in regulated industries can use CloudTrail to ensure they meet compliance standards. CloudTrail provides a history of data activity for audits, thus helping in fulfilling compliance requirements.
Change Management: CloudTrail logs help organizations track resource modifications and manage changes within the AWS environment more effectively, providing a solution to maintaining a stable, secure, and high-performing environment.
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