Word of the Day: AWS CloudTrail

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |May 26, 2017

AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail is an application program interface (API) call-recording and log-monitoring Web service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS CloudTrail allows AWS customers to record API calls, sending log files to Amazon S3 buckets for storage. The service provides API activity data including the identity of an API caller, the time of an API call, the source of the IP address of an API caller, the request parameters and the response elements returned by the AWS service. CloudTrail can be configured to publish a notification for each log file delivered, allowing users to take action upon log file delivery -- a process that according to AWS should only take about 15 minutes. It can also be configured to aggregate log files across multiple accounts so that log files are delivered to a single S3 bucket. The service can facilitate compliance reporting for organizations that use AWS and need to track the API calls for one or more AWS account. CloudTrail can also be configured to support security information and event management platforms and resource management. Quote of the Day "CloudTrail is an innovative solution to a thorny problem: logging events in a cloud environment and storing and managing those logs in a simple way." - Dave Shackleford Related Terms and Tags RELATED TERMS AWS application program interface Amazon S3 Amazon SNS log RELATED TAGS AWS support licensing and SLAs Public cloud computing security   Learning Center AWS careers benefit from skills, not certifications AWS careers are on the rise; IT professionals need to worry more about diversifying their skill sets than obtaining AWS certifications. Amazon CloudTrail: How it could change cloud logging CloudTrail, a new cloud logging service from Amazon, endeavors to simplify event management for security professionals migrating IT resources to the cloud. Proper tools improve AWS cloud developer productivity Native AWS tools and third-party utilities facilitate developer productivity with improvements to continuous delivery and health monitoring. Police your public cloud with AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail provides an array of options for Amazon Web Services customers to protect their resources in the cloud. Get up to speed with the native security and compliance tool. New CloudTrail features help verify API calls, AWS usage AWS usage can be monitored via AWS CloudTrail, which now features more efficient ways to verify calls to cloud resources. Stay In Touch FOLLOW US CONTACT AN EDITOR For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: mrouse@techtarget.com About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.