Architecture

Retain X>90 days of cloudtrail logs in a searchable tool

Enable cloudtrail logs for more than 90 days to facilitate investigating changes to resources.

Summary

At some point, an organization will want to answer who / what changed that resource, deleted that resource, etc. You'll want CloudTrail in a search tool (ELK, SumoLogic, Splunk, etc.) to quickly find out what happened.

Applicable To

Always applies

Resources

Cloudtrail

Maturity

Medium

Functions
Security
Reliability
CSPS

AWS

Author

Travis McPeak

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