AWS CloudTrail Getting Started

AWS CloudTrail monitors and records account activity across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The service helps you gain control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions. In this Getting Started course, you will learn the benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of CloudTrail. This course includes presentations, architecture diagrams, and service demonstrations.

• Creating organization or account level trails across regions and selecting event types
• Securing audit logs with S3 policies, encryption, and log file integrity validation
• Analyzing activity with Event history, CloudTrail Lake queries, and Athena
• Building alerting and automated remediation with EventBridge, CloudWatch, and Lambda

• Configure and validate CloudTrail trails across accounts and regions with secure storage and compliant retention
• Investigate account activity and produce audit ready evidence using Event history, CloudTrail Lake queries, and Athena to answer who did what, when, and from where
• Implement monitoring and automated response by integrating CloudTrail with EventBridge, CloudWatch, and Lambda to reduce detection and response times

• Presentations covering benefits, use cases, and technical concepts
• Architecture diagrams for reference implementations
• Service demonstrations for setup, analysis, and integrations
• Certificate of completion