AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: AWS CloudTrail

Get visibility into the activity logs for your workforce and customer identities

The customers we work with often use identity services like Okta to authenticate their workforce identity into the AWS environment, and customer identity service to build authentication into their business applications. In addition, we see customers using other partner solutions in security, cost management, cloud operations, and observability categories. We have heard that our customers […]

Top 10 AWS Cloud Operations and Migrations Blog posts of 2022

With 2022 behind us, we want to take the opportunity to highlight our readers and the top blog posts from 2022. A big thank you to all our readers but also our authors who continue to work on delighting our customers with their blog posts. #1 Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake – a managed audit and […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake integration with AWS Config

Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. Early this year we announced the availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail […]

Announcing evidence finder for AWS Audit Manager

Today, we’re excited to announce a new search feature that allows customers to perform targeted searches by multiple criteria, group the results and send the data to an assessment report. Customers can more easily find the evidence they need and, organize it without the need to add it to a report. Customers can then generate their […]

Enable cross-account queries on AWS CloudTrail lake using delegated administration from AWS Organizations

We are excited to announce a new CloudTrail feature, which lets the management account of an organization configure up to 3 delegated administrators to manage the organization’s trails and Lake event data stores. A delegated administrator has permission to manage resources on behalf of the organization. Delegated administrator support enables flexibility for customers by allowing […]

AWS Cloud Operations Kiosks at AWS re:Invent 2022

The Expo on Day 3 of AWS on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. For most organizations, the question isn’t “if we move to the cloud” anymore; it’s “what do we move first?” and “how soon can we be operating in the cloud?” Wherever you are in your digital […]

Build Cloud Operations skills using the new Getting Started with AWS CloudTrail Training

Are you an organization that needs help with Configuration, Compliance, and Auditing? Do you need to gain visibility of your organization’s account activity across AWS infrastructure? AWS CloudTrail records actions taken by users, roles, or even an AWS service. CloudTrail records actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS […]

Copy existing AWS CloudTrail trails events to a AWS CloudTrail Lake event data store

AWS announced the general availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake on 5th Jan 2022, a managed audit and security lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and query activity logs for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. Since launch, customers have adopted this feature, and it’s an integral part of customer operational and security operational processes. […]

How Arctic Wolf uses AWS CloudTrail Lake to Simplify Security and Operations

In this post, we’ll discuss how Arctic Wolf is using AWS CloudTrail Lake to simplify compliance, enhance security operations, and obtain new operational insights from their CloudTrail data. Arctic Wolf, the leader in security operations, helps customers protect their organizations from rapidly evolving cyber threats with the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud and Concierge Security® model. As […]

Find the most evaluated AWS Config rules using AWS CloudTrail Lake

In this post, I’ll show you how to find most evaluated AWS Config rules to dive deep into AWS Config charges on your invoice by using AWS CloudTrail Lake. The solution uses the new AWS CloudTrail feature, CloudTrail Lake, to analyze CloudTrail events. AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and […]