Word of the Day: AWS CloudTrail

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms | August 9, 2018 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 regulatory 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 (SIEM) and event management platforms and and resource management. Quote of the Day "AWS CloudTrail logs all API calls, which means it generates a lot of data, but digging for useful data among all the logs takes some work." - Brian Tarbox Trending Terms Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 SIEM AWS Directory Service CloudCheckr API Learning Center Key considerations when buying AWS cost management tools Keep expenses under control in a multi-cloud AWS infrastructure with third-party AWS cost management tools and the usage reports, cost reports, platform support, optimization and security features that they offer. Five AWS IAM best practices to bolster cloud security AWS IAM best practices are a key part of any secure cloud deployment. Admins, for example, need to ensure they carefully create and manage user access policies and roles, and enlist other native and third-party security tools, as needed, to fortify their resources. Considering cloud threat intelligence and detection services Cloud threat intelligence services can help enterprises detect and prevent threats to their systems. Here's a look at some of the available options for a cloud threat detection service. Parsing AWS CloudTrail logs for useful information AWS CloudTrail has a log all or nothing approach, which means it generates a lot of data. Finding the CloudTrail logs that are most meaningful to your enterprise can be difficult. Tracking user activity with AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail is a Web service that keeps track of AWS API calls. Learn to turn on AWS CloudTrail and to find and read log files. Quiz Yourself The AWS portfolio ______ more than 100 services, including those for compute, databases, infrastructure management, application development and security. a. comprises b. composes Answer Stay in Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed! FOLLOW US 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 2018 TechTarget. All rights reserved.