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CloudWatch for security and cost control

CloudWatch for security and cost control - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudWatch for security and cost control

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- [Narrator] In this next section, we're going to take a look at service logging and Amazon. And there are a couple different ways that you can log activities. And this is both for security and for governance. The first tool is CloudWatch and this is the core logging tool. It logs all activities on an Amazon account by service and it's enabled by default. In addition to that, we are going to take a look at CloudTrail, which logs calls to specific API endpoints. And it provides information about security credentials and time of call. So this is particularly important around complying with security requirements. Also, some of my clients use third-part log readers such as Loggly and Splunk. So, we're going to start by looking at CloudWatch. So, in order to work with CloudWatch and look at services, I sped up a sample lambda service and what I did is I just used the helloWorld example and then I fired the lambda function a couple of times so we have some information in CloudWatch. It…

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