Tag: AWS CloudTrail

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 […]

AWS announced the general availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake on 5th Jan 2022, a managed audit and security lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and query activity logs for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. Since launch, customers have adopted this feature, and it’s an integral part of customer operational and security operational processes. […]

In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed how you can use purpose-built services, such as AWS Audit Manager, AWS Config, and AWS Artifact, to help with almost any audit that you may be preparing for, with features geared specifically to what is required by an audit. But the story shouldn’t start there. Instead, […]

AWS customers represent a range of different verticals, locations, and sizes. Given today’s digital, global economy, customers have various governance needs based upon their geographies. Regardless of the regulations or standards, AWS provides services and resources that help our customers prepare to meet those requirements. In this post, I demonstrate how you can use AWS […]

In this post, I’ll show you how to find most evaluated AWS Config rules to dive deep into AWS Config charges on your invoice by using AWS CloudTrail Lake. The solution uses the new AWS CloudTrail feature, CloudTrail Lake, to analyze CloudTrail events. AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and […]

Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. In November 2013, we announced AWS CloudTrail as the auditing platform for AWS. Since then, millions of customers have adopted this service. We believe CloudTrail is so important to AWS customers’ success that every new […]

This blog post highlights newly published videos on the AWS Management and Governance YouTube channel that help you enable, provision, and operate your AWS environments effectively. The first part of this blog series was published last spring. The objective of these video-based, hands-on solutions is to enable you to innovate faster while maintaining control over […]

In this blog post, we learn how to ingest AWS CloudTrail log data into Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and identify your AWS account activity against security threats, and create a governance framework for security best practices. We will analyze log trail event data in CloudWatch using features such as Logs Insight, Contributor Insights, Metric filters […]

Many customers that I work with are creating and provisioning new accounts using AWS Control Tower. They prefer an AWS native solution for creating their environment knowing that it will be based upon documented AWS Best Practices. As customers scale their account creation, there exists an opportunity to use additional Control Tower features to perform […]

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