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Solution: Create a CloudTrail trail

Solution: Create a CloudTrail trail - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Solution: Create a CloudTrail trail

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(bright dance music) - [Instructor] In this solution for looking at CloudTrail events, we're going to start by logging into the AWS Management Console, signing into the console with your credentials. I'm going to sign in using the root user email, which is what you would be using if you were signing in for the first time for a free account. When I sign in, I have to touch my USB-C key, my multifactor authentication. In the console, I want to search for CloudTrail, and it will show up in the services in the middle of the screen. Let's select it. When it opens, on the left hand side, just below dashboard, we can see event history. In the middle of the screen, we can see all of the events in this account at this point in time. Note that CloudTrail is continually tracking the events that happen against this account, such as logging into this account, firing off, opening up different services, firing APIs. They're all here. It's slightly behind because we just logged in and that doesn't…

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