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Tag: Amazon CloudTrail
Announcing CloudTrail Insights: Identify and Respond to Unusual API Activity
Building software in the cloud makes it easy to instrument systems for logging from the very beginning. With tools like AWS CloudTrail, tracking actions taken on AWS accounts and services is straightforward, providing ways to find the event that caused a given change. But not all log entries are useful. When things are running smoothly, […]
New – Amazon Web Services Extends CloudTrail to All AWS Customers
I have exciting news for all Amazon Web Services customers! I have been waiting patiently to share this great news with all of you and finally, the wait is over. AWS CloudTrail is now enabled by default for ALL CUSTOMERS and will provide visibility into the past seven days of account activity without the need […]
CloudTrail Update – Capture and Process Amazon S3 Object-Level API Activity
I would like to show you how several different AWS services can be used together to address a challenge faced by many of our customers. Along the way I will introduce you to a new AWS CloudTrail feature that launches today and show you how you can use it in conjunction with CloudWatch Events. The […]
New CloudWatch Events – Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources
When you pull the curtain back on an AWS-powered application, you’ll find that a lot is happening behind the scenes. EC2 instances are launched and terminated by Auto Scaling policies in response to changes in system load, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon SNS topics and Amazon SQS queues are created and deleted, and attributes of existing […]
AWS CloudTrail Update – Turn on in All Regions & Use Multiple Trails
My colleague Sivakanth Mundru wrote the guest post below in order to share news of some important new features for AWS CloudTrail. — Jeff; As many of you know AWS CloudTrail provides visibility into API activity in your AWS account and enables you to answer important questions such as which user made an API call […]
AWS CloudTrail Update – SSE-KMS Encryption & Log File Integrity Verification
My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent the guest post below to introduce a pair of features for AWS CloudTrail. — Jeff; As you know, AWS CloudTrail records API calls made on your account and delivers log files containing API activity to an S3 bucket you specify. Today, we are announcing two new features for CloudTrail: Support […]
Amazon S3 Update – CloudTrail Integration
You can now use AWS CloudTrail to track bucket-level operations on your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The tracked operations include creation and deletion of buckets, modifications to access controls, changes to lifecycle policies, and changes to cross-region replication settings. AWS CloudTrail records API activity in your AWS account and delivers the resulting […]
Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS (Updated)
My colleague Mingxue Zhao sent me a guest post designed to make sure that you are aware of an important time / clock issue. Note: This post was first published on May 18, 2015. We made some important additions and corrections on May 25, 2015. — Jeff; The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) […]