Build Cloud Operations skills using the new Getting Started with AWS CloudTrail Training

Are you an organization that needs help with Configuration, Compliance, and Auditing? Do you need to gain visibility of your organization’s account activity across AWS infrastructure? AWS CloudTrail records actions taken by users, roles, or even an AWS service. CloudTrail records actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS SDK, and APIs. Having CloudTrail enabled allows visibility into your AWS account activity. Furthermore, this visibility is crucial to security and operational best practices. CloudTrail helps you gain control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions. In this Getting Started course, you’ll learn the benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of CloudTrail. With our new training, we’re making it easier than ever to empower your organization to get started using CloudTrail and its capabilities.

CloudTrail is an enabler for continuous compliance at scale, as it creates a validated audit log of resource changes which aid in identifying the source of non-compliant resources. CloudTrail can be leveraged easily on its own, or in combination with other AWS services to enhance visibility across your AWS environment.

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Getting started

Enroll in our new virtual Getting Started with AWS CloudTrail course to build your skills and expertise pertaining to auditing activities, security monitoring, troubleshooting operational issues, and account activity logging for actions across AWS infrastructure.

About the course

Getting Started with AWS CloudTrail is a self-paced foundational course on AWS designed for Compliance, DevOps, and Security teams looking to enhance their skillset to deliver applications and services securely within the cloud. This course is also ideal for IT Professionals who would like to get a better understanding of how to gain control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions within AWS accounts. This fundamentals training empowers all customers, even those with little-to-no experience to learn more about Cloud Trail.

Over the duration of this course, you’ll learn about the benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of CloudTrail. This course also emphasizes the details pertaining to how CloudTrail can be used to architect a cloud solution while utilizing AWS security best practices in relation to centralized logging, auditing, and operational troubleshooting.

This virtual learning environment encompasses presentations, architecture diagrams, service demonstrations, and additional resources links to expand your knowledge base.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand how CloudTrail works.
• Identify what problems CloudTrail solves.
• Explain the cost structure of CloudTrail and cost-optimize your CloudTrail usage.
• Recognize the benefits of CloudTrail.
• Describe the technical concepts of CloudTrail, such as management events, data events, and more.
• List typical use cases for CloudTrail.
• Specify what it would take to implement CloudTrail in a real-world scenario.
• Understand security best practices in CloudTrail.
• Interact with CloudTrail Events using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights .
• Use CloudTrail from the Console and using AWS CLI.

Improve your Cloud Operations skills on AWS

This course can help you build the necessary skills to be successful in the governance, security, and compliance of your AWS resources. CloudTrail is a foundational piece for establishing effective Cloud Operations on AWS, thereby putting your organization well on its way to operating securely and safely in the cloud at scale. You can also find further training to help improve your AWS skills in the AWS Skill Builder course catalog.

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