With AWS CloudTrail, you can keep a record of when activity occurs in your AWS account. That activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event.
AWS CloudTrail Getting Started
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Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 hour to complete
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Describe how CloudTrail works and recognize the benefits of CloudTrail.
Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of CloudTrail.
Specify what it would take to implement CloudTrail in a real-world scenario.
Explore how to use CloudTrail on the AWS Console and use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
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Assessments
1 assignment
Taught in English
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With AWS CloudTrail, you can keep a record of when activity occurs in your AWS account. That activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event. In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of CloudTrail. CloudTrail is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) service offering that helps you with enabling operational and risk auditing, governance, and compliance of your AWS account. Using CloudTrail, you can view, search, download, archive, analyze, and respond to account activity across your AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail helps identify who or what took which action, which resources were acted on, and when the event occurred. It also helps identify other details to help you analyze and respond to activity in your AWS account.
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