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Monitor security with CloudTrail

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Monitor security with CloudTrail

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- [Narrator] One of the essential services that Amazon provides for free is CloudTrail. CloudTrail allows you to track all API calls to your AWS account. It also tracks the authentication, successful or failure, to your AWS account, so important information to have for compliance and governance. It retains this information for 90 days. That's the free portion. If you want to retain it longer, you can create additional trails and store the information long-term in S3 buckets. Having this information about what's happened to your AWS account allows you to review the log details whenever you like, or continually, and figure out who did what, when did they do it, and where. Some of the use cases for CloudTrail might just be security analysis, overall tracking of changes to resources, and being alerted when those changes occur, authentication issues, and having log files for matching up compliance. CloudTrail has…

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