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AWS CloudTrail
From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
AWS CloudTrail
- [Instructor] Your AWS IT infrastructure, like any IT infrastructure, needs to be monitored and audited to make sure the resources remain compliant with any government, industry, or company policies. In addition to compliance, the AWS Cloud Trail Service helps to track user activity and API usage, which allows for operational and risk auditing of your AWS infrastructure. With CloudTrail, you can log and monitor account activities, provide event history of account activities, simplify compliance audits, discover and troubleshoot security and operational issues, provide visibility into user and resource activities, and track and automatically respond to security threats within your AWS infrastructure. For example, you can utilize CloudTrail to automatically respond to security vulnerabilities. You can create a workflow to add a specific policy to an S3 bucket when CloudTrail finds an API call that made the bucket public. You can track many account activities, including actions taken…