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Rajesh Daswani
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Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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Meeting compliance requirements with Amazon CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables you to log every action taken in your AWS account, allowing you to track user activity and API usage. CloudTrail is enabled by default on your AWS account when you create it. It stores event history accessible within the CloudTrail dashboard for every activity that occurs in your AWS account. The following screenshot shows an example of the CloudWatch event history:

Figure 13.3 – AWS CloudTrail

You can use CloudTrail for enforcing and managing your overall compliance and governance requirements since it can provide you with a time-ordered series of events that have taken place in your account. You can also respond to events as they occur by ingesting them into Amazon CloudWatch and then configuring alarms or event rules accordingly to react to specific events. AWS CloudTrail events provide a history of both API and non-API activity. API activity includes actions...

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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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