AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Bobby Hallahan
Bobby Hallahan is a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect on the AWS Observability team. He is passionate about helping customers find innovative solutions to difficult problems. He works with AWS customers to help them meet their observability goals. During his tenure at AWS, Bobby has supported enterprise customers with their mission-critical workloads.
Sending CloudFront standard logs to CloudWatch Logs for analysis
Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront standard logs (also known as access logs) give you visibility into requests that are made to a CloudFront distribution. The logs can […]
Improve security by analyzing VPC flow logs with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights
You can use rules in Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights to gain security visibility into your VPC flow logs. The rules analyze flow logs in targeted groups in Amazon CloudWatch Logs and display the Top-N contributors for a given log field or combination of log fields. In this post, I’ll show you how to set up CloudWatch Contributor Insight rules for VPC flow logs. I’ll demonstrate how to:
Map the VPC flow log format to rules in Contributor Insights.
Explain how a single rule can be used to monitor many VPC flow logs.
Walk through some sample rules and show them in a CloudWatch dashboard.