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Category: AWS CloudTrail

View multi-account Service Quotas Increase using AWS CloudTrail Lake

In this post, you’ll learn how to find all of the Service Quotas that were modified across all accounts and regions using AWS CloudTrail Lake. The solution uses AWS CloudTrail’s new feature CloudTrail Lake to analyze CloudTrail events. This solution can help customers be proactive in scenarios including: Workload promotion from lower environment to Production […]

Gain compliance insights using the open source community for AWS CloudTrail

Does your organization need to maintain visibility into operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance? Do you need this visibility across multiple AWS accounts and geographic regions? Would you like predefined templates to help you get started with analyzing account activity quickly? Using AWS CloudTrail Lake and our newly announced public repository of […]

Consolidate and query AWS CloudTrail data across accounts and regions using AWS CloudTrail Lake

AWS CloudTrail allows tracking of user and API activities across your AWS infrastructure. AWS CloudTrail best practices recommend AWS customers set up separate trails for different use cases such as operational troubleshooting, auditing, security monitoring, etc. Once the use case is accomplished, customers might permanently delete some of the trails but choose to retain their […]

How Skai leveraged AWS Step Functions to enforce its tagging policies

Skai is an independent, global marketing platform for strategy, measurement, and best-of-breed activation across all of the world’s most influential digital channels. Skai’s solution provides data-driven insights and optimization technology to help companies make informed decisions and scale performance across critical publishers. Skai possesses a highly technical engineering organization with over 350 software engineers, data […]

Get visibility into the activity logs for your workforce and customer identities

The customers we work with often use identity services like Okta to authenticate their workforce identity into the AWS environment, and customer identity service to build authentication into their business applications. In addition, we see customers using other partner solutions in security, cost management, cloud operations, and observability categories. We have heard that our customers […]

Top 10 AWS Cloud Operations and Migrations Blog posts of 2022

With 2022 behind us, we want to take the opportunity to highlight our readers and the top blog posts from 2022. A big thank you to all our readers but also our authors who continue to work on delighting our customers with their blog posts. #1 Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake – a managed audit and […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake integration with AWS Config

Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. Early this year we announced the availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail […]

Announcing evidence finder for AWS Audit Manager

Today, we’re excited to announce a new search feature that allows customers to perform targeted searches by multiple criteria, group the results and send the data to an assessment report. Customers can more easily find the evidence they need and, organize it without the need to add it to a report. Customers can then generate their […]

Enable cross-account queries on AWS CloudTrail lake using delegated administration from AWS Organizations

We are excited to announce a new CloudTrail feature, which lets the management account of an organization configure up to 3 delegated administrators to manage the organization’s trails and Lake event data stores. A delegated administrator has permission to manage resources on behalf of the organization. Delegated administrator support enables flexibility for customers by allowing […]

AWS Cloud Operations Kiosks at AWS re:Invent 2022

The Expo on Day 3 of AWS on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. For most organizations, the question isn’t “if we move to the cloud” anymore; it’s “what do we move first?” and “how soon can we be operating in the cloud?” Wherever you are in your digital […]