What is AWS CloudTrail?
AWS CloudTrail is a
service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk
auditing of AWS accounts. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously
monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across the AWS
infrastructure. CloudTrail provides an event history of AWS account
activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs,
command line tools, and other AWS services. Once enabled, users get a CloudTrail
with all Management Events automatically and at no charge. Then, users also have
several different data event sources that can opt in to depending on particular applications and compliance needs. This event history is yet another
source of observability data that AWS provides which simplifies security
analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.
Categories & Use Cases
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CloudTrail Insights: Identify and respond to unusual operational activity •Unexpected spikes in resource provisioning •Bursts of IAM management actions •Gaps in periodic maintenance activity •Automatic analysis of API calls and usage patterns •Alerts when unusual activity is detected
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, Montreal, Sao Paulo, GovCloud US West, GovCloud US East, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Bahrain, Cape Town, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing Ningxia, Osaka |
FAQs
What is AWS CloudTrail?
AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. In addition, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in AWS accounts. These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.
What are AWS CloudTrail's top competitors?
IBM Cloud Activity Tracker are common alternatives for AWS CloudTrail.