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Using CloudTrail logs for security

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Using CloudTrail logs for security

- [Instructor] Continuing on with our tour of logging, we had worked to set up a billing alarm in the previous movie. And if I drill into this alarm, you'll see it's in the alarm state cause we've spent more than the threshold, which is $50. And what I also needed to do and I did this separately, is I associated this alarm with my email address for the particular user that I'm logged in as. And I confirmed that through my email client. So, I just did that kind of separate, just so the movie wouldn't be so long. And you can see that now this is in an alarm state. So, in addition to working with CloudWatch, I mention in the introduction to this section that there's another type of logging which is CloudTrail. So, we're going to next look at that and see how CloudTrail can actually integrate with CloudWatch. So, over on the management console, I'm going to click on CloudTrail. And as I mentioned, this provides a detailed record of specific API calls. Not it's not all APIs for all…

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