{"id":3010,"date":"2019-08-31T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=3010"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T11:09:14","slug":"cloudtrail-basics-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-certified-security-specialty\/cloudtrail-basics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CloudTrail Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a web service that records API activity in AWS account. <\/li><li>It is enabled on AWS account when created.<\/li><li>All activity occurring in AWS account, is recorded in a CloudTrail event.<\/li><li>Activity of past 90 days can be viewed\/ searched\/downloaded from event history view <\/li><li>It logs information on <\/li><li>who made a request<ul><li>the services used<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>the actions performed<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>parameters for the actions<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>the response elements returned by the AWS service. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Stores Logs in specific log group.<\/li><li>Logs provide specific information on what occurred in AWS account.<\/li><li>focuses more on AWS API calls made in AWS account.<\/li><li>helps in meeting compliance and regulatory standards.<\/li><li>Usually delivers an event within 15 minutes of the API call. <\/li><li>It helps you enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing. <\/li><li>CloudTrail records all actions taken on user-wise\/role-wise\/service -wise <\/li><li>Events cover all actions in <ul><li>AWS Management Console<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>AWS Command Line Interface<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>AWS SDKs and APIs.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Trail is a configuration which delivers event details to specified S3 bucket<\/li><li>Trail is employed for archival, analysis against changes in AWS resources<\/li><li>create a trail with <ul><li>CloudTrail console<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>AWS CLI<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>CloudTrail API<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Types of trails<ul><li>A trail that applies to all regions &#8211; records events in each region. 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