AWS CloudTrail

Explore AWS CloudTrail to understand how it logs and tracks user and service activities within your AWS account. Learn to distinguish management, data, and insight events, use CloudTrail Event History for recent activity analysis, and configure CloudTrail trails for long-term auditing. Discover how CloudTrail Insights employs AI to detect unusual behavior, aiding security and compliance in cloud operations.

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What are CloudTrail events?
CloudTrail services
How CloudTrail works

AWS CloudTrail is an AWS tool primarily used for logging any events that represent operations and actions done by users, AWS services, or IAM roles. These logs can be analyzed for monitoring and governing the AWS infrastructure. These events comprise any AWS service or resource actions via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs and APIs. This makes CloudTrail ideal for auditing, validating compliance standards, identifying security breaches, or troubleshooting any operational issues.

Note: CloudTrail Event History is ...