Managing your Trails within AWS CloudTrail

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 1 minute and 59 seconds
Students: 319
Rating: 5/5

In this lesson, we shall be looking at how to manage your trails when working with AWS CloudTrail.

Learning objectives

  • The different managed policies available to control CloudTrail permissions.
  • How Events are structured within CloudTrail event logs.
  • The different parameters that are stored within a single event.
  • The naming convention of CloudTrail log files.
  • The Amazon S3 bucket structure of where CloudTrail logs are stored.
  • How Amazon CloudWatch can be used to monitor CloudTrail logs.

Intended audience

  • Security architects.
  • Auditors.
  • Anyone looking to become certified in AWS.

Prerequisites