Logging and monitoring

Cloudtrail Not Delivering Logs to CloudWatch

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
  • AWS CIS
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  • AWS Foundational Security Best Practices Controls
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  • Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD)
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  • CCM-CSA
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  • CCPA
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  • cis_8
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  • CPRA
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  • CSA CCM
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  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices
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  • GDPR
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  • hdh
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  • HITRUST
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  • iso_27001_2022
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  • iso_27002_2022
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  • Mitre ATT&CK
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  • New Zealand Information Security Manual
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  • NIST 800-171
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  • NIST 800-53
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  • PDPA

Description

AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls made in a given AWS account. CloudTrail uses Amazon S3 for log file storage and delivery, so log files are stored durably. In addition to capturing CloudTrail logs within a specified S3 bucket for long term analysis, realtime analysis can be performed by configuring CloudTrail to send logs to CloudWatch Logs. For a trail that is enabled in all regions in an account, CloudTrail sends log files from all those regions to a CloudWatch Logs log group. It is recommended that CloudTrail logs be sent to CloudWatch Logs.