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Tracking and Recording Activity with AWS CloudTrail
Introduction
Difficulty
Intermediate
Duration
16m
Students
103
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5/5
Description

In this course, we introduce you to the AWS CloudTrail service, which allows you to monitor and record activity across your AWS accounts by capturing both API and non-API events.

Learning Objectives

  • What AWS CloudTrail is
  • The benefits that AWS CloudTrail brings
  • Why you should be using AWS CloudTrail

Intended Audience

  • Those who have an active role with management and governance of your AWS account
  • Security architects, auditors, and anyone looking to become certified in AWS

Prerequisites 

  • Have a basic understanding of the AWS landscape and some of its core services. 
  • To learn more about the fundamentals of AWS, please see our Fundamentals of AWS learning path
Transcript

Hello and welcome to this course which is going to introduce you to the AWS CloudTrail service, which allows you to monitor and record activity across your AWS accounts by capturing both API and non-API events.

My name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content Director here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

If you have an active role with management and governance of your AWS account, then you should have an understanding of AWS CloudTrail. So this course is great for security architects, auditors, and anyone looking to become certified in AWS.

By the end of this course, you will have an understanding of:

To get the most out of this course you should have a basic understanding of the AWS landscape and some of its core services.  To learn more about the fundamentals of AWS, please see our existing learning path here:

Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy is valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact support@cloudacademy.com.

Please note that, at the time of writing this content, all course information was accurate.  AWS implements hundreds of updates every month as part of its ongoing drive to innovate and enhance its services. As a result, minor discrepancies may appear in the course content over time.  Here at Cloud Academy, we strive to keep our content up to date in order to provide the best training available. 

So, if you notice any information that is outdated, please contact support@cloudacademy.com.  This will allow us to update the course during its next release cycle. Thank you!

About the Author
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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.