AWS CloudTrail tracks user activity and API usage in the AWS Cloud, on premises, and even with other cloud providers.

CloudTrail provides a detailed history of API calls, so you can track changes and identify who made them and when. This helps you understand what actions were taken on your AWS resources.

Features

  1. CloudTrail events
    • captures details about actions performed within your AWS account, such as:
      • API calls
      • console actions,
      • other activities
  2. CloudTrail logs
    • monitors events and delivers those events as log files to your AWS S3.
  3. CloudTrail Insights
    • analyzes normal patterns of API call volume and API error rates.