AUDITING, MONITORING AND LOGGING Flashcards
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CloudWatch
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CloudWatch is a collection of services that help you monitor and observe your cloud resources. Provide real-time monitoring onEC2 instances. CloudWatch can notify you if an EC2 instance goes into the stopped state or usage goes above a certain utilization.
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CloudTrail
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CloudTrail tracks user activity and API calls within your account. Track the time a particular event occurred in your account. You can troubleshoot events over the past 90days using the cloudtrail event history log to find the specific time an event occurred on a per-Region basis. You can create a custom trail to extend past 90days. Things that can be tracked: UserName, Event Time & Name, IP Address, Access Key, Region, Error Code.
