AWS News Blog
Tag: Amazon CloudTrail
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. is now enabled by default for ALL CUSTOMERS and will provide visibility into the past seven days of account activity without the need for you […]
Read MoreCloudTrail 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 feature that launches today and show you how you can use it in conjunction with CloudWatch Events. The Challenge Our […]
Read MoreNew 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 […]
Read MoreAWS 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 . 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 or which resources […]
Read MoreAWS 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 . — 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 for […]
Read MoreAmazon S3 Update – CloudTrail Integration
You can now use AWS CloudTrail to track bucket-level operations on your 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 log files to a designated S3 […]
Read MoreLook 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) […]
Read MoreNew – AWS API Activity Lookup in CloudTrail
My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent another guest post my way! This one shows you how to look up AWS API activity using . — Jeff; “The ability to look up API activity in AWS CloudTrail helps us easily troubleshoot security incidents and operational issues. We can now take immediate actions such as following up with […]
Read MoreCloudTrail Integration with CloudWatch in Four More Regions
My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent me a guest post with and integration news, along with information about a new template to help you to get going more quickly. — Jeff; At re: Invent 2014, we launched integration with Logs in the , , and regions. With this integration, you can monitor for specific API calls […]
Read MoreRoute 53 Update – Tagging, CloudTrail, One-Click Alarms, Visible Health Check Status
is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service (DNS) web service. In a nutshell, it translates symbolic names such as aws.amazon.com into numerical IP addresses like 176.32.100.36. Today we are making Route 53 even more useful with the addition of four new features: Tagging of domains and hosted zones. API logging via CloudTrail. One-click […]
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