Hello and welcome to part one of this two part series of courses which has been designed to help you understand how AWS performs logging for a number of key services and how to use this data captured by the logs to resolve incidents and identify security threats. 

Before we start I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart Scott. I am one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy specializing in AWS Amazon Web Services. Feel free to connect with me with any questions using the details shown on screen. Alternatively you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question.

The focus of this two part series is to understand the login process and how to monitor this data to your organization's benefit from both an operational and security perspective. As a result those who have the following or similar roles would benefit from this content: Cloud Security Engineer, Cloud Security Architect, Cloud Administrators, Cloud Support and Operations and Compliance Managers. 

Part one of this series is constructed of the following lectures. The Benefits of Logging. This lecture focuses on the core principle of why logging is important. CloudWatch Logs. Here we'll look at how to implement logging using CloudWatch Logs and the associated agent. Next I'll look at CloudTrail Logging and CloudTrail records all API calls. So here I explain how you can use these logs and how they are constructed. Next we'll be monitoring CloudTrail Logs, and here I look at how you can use CloudWatch to monitor CloudTrail events, and then finally in this course we look at S3 Access Logs, and this lecture focuses on the logging capabilities within S3 buckets. 

Part two of this series will continue the theme of logging across AWS services by explaining the following. CloudFront Logs, and here we'll look at how to log the request from each user requesting access to your website and distribution. Next I look at VPC Flow Logs, and this lecture focuses on how to look at the network data traversing your network interface cards within your VPC. Next is AWS Config Logging, and here I'll look at how AWS Config provides a timeline of changes against your AWS resources. And finally in Part two, I look at Filtering and Searching of Log Data, and this lecture looks at how to use Amazon Athena to query logs being stored on S3. 

The objectives of this series is to enable you to understand why and when you should enable logging of key services, how to configure logging to enhance incident resolution and security analysis, and you'll understand how to extract specific data from logging data sets. 

This is an advanced level course series, and so you should be familiar with the following services and understand the individual use cases and feature sets. Throughout this series I will reference a number of URL links which will help and direct you to related information on specific topics. To makes these links easily available to you I've included them at the top of the transcript within the lecture they are referenced. 

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That brings me to the end of this lecture. Coming up next I want to start off by looking at the different benefits that logging brings to your operational environment.