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Using CloudTrail for user action audits

Using CloudTrail for user action audits - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Using CloudTrail for user action audits

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- [Instructor] To view actions and changes to your AWS account, you can go to CloudTrail. CloudTrail keeps a record of the actions and changes for the last 90 days. It also records the username, or Lambda function that's performing the action. If you want to store these events in an ongoing way, CloudTrail can save those for you in an S3 bucket. We do that by creating a trail, so I'll click Create trail, I'm going to specify the trail name as east2, cause I only want to monitor this trail in east2 region. For management events you can click on the Learn more link to learn about the management events and specify what type you're interested in. For S3 you can monitor all buckets or individual buckets, and for Lambda functions you can also monitor for all current and future functions. Then you specify if you want to create a bucket or use an existing one. I'll use an existing one. I'm going to specify my donotdeletemeplz, and then under the Advanced I'm going to put east2 as the prefix…

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