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USER GUIDE

 * What Is AWS CloudTrail?
    * How CloudTrail works
    * Concepts
    * Supported Regions
    * Supported services and integrations
    * Quotas in AWS CloudTrail

 * CloudTrail tutorials
    * View event history
    * Create a trail to log management events
       * View your log files
   
    * Create an event data store for S3 data events
    * Copy trail events to a CloudTrail Lake event data store
    * View CloudTrail Lake dashboards
    * View and run CloudTrail Lake sample queries
    * Save CloudTrail Lake query results to an S3 bucket

 * Working with CloudTrail Event history
    * Viewing recent management events in the CloudTrail console
    * Viewing recent management events with the AWS CLI

 * Working with CloudTrail Lake
    * CloudTrail Lake supported Regions
    * CloudTrail Lake concepts and terminology
    * Event data stores
       * Create, update, and manage event data stores with the console
          * Create an event data store for CloudTrail events
          * Create an event data store for CloudTrail Insights events
          * Create an event data store for AWS Config configuration items
          * Create an event data store for events outside of AWS
          * Update an event data store
          * Stop and start event ingestion
          * Change termination protection
          * Delete an event data store
          * Restore an event data store
      
       * Create, update, and manage event data stores with the AWS CLI
       * Manage event data store lifecycles
       * Copy trail events to an event data store
          * Event copy details
          * Example: Copy trail events to a new event data store
      
       * Federate an event data store
          * Enable Lake query federation
          * Disable Lake query federation
          * Managing CloudTrail Lake federation resources with AWS Lake
            Formation
      
       * Organization event data stores
   
    * Integrations
       * Create an integration with a CloudTrail partner with the console
       * Create a custom integration with the console
       * Create, update, and manage CloudTrail Lake integrations with the AWS
         CLI
       * CloudTrail Lake integrations event schema
   
    * View Lake dashboards
    * Queries
       * View sample queries
       * Create or edit a query
       * Run a query and save query results
       * View query results
       * Download saved query results
       * Validate saved query results
       * Run and manage CloudTrail Lake queries with the AWS CLI
   
    * CloudTrail Lake SQL constraints
    * Supported SQL schemas for event data stores
    * Controlling user permissions
    * Managing CloudTrail Lake costs
    * Supported CloudWatch metrics

 * Working with CloudTrail trails
    * Creating a trail for your AWS account
       * Creating and updating a trail with the console
          * Creating a trail
          * Updating a trail
          * Deleting a trail
          * Turning off logging for a trail
      
       * Creating, updating, and managing trails with the AWS Command Line
         Interface
          * Using create-trail
          * Using update-trail
          * Managing trails with the AWS CLI
   
    * Creating a trail for an organization
       * Moving from member account trails to organization trails
       * Prepare for creating a trail for your organization
       * Creating a trail for your organization in the console
       * Creating a trail for an organization with the AWS Command Line
         Interface
       * Troubleshooting
   
    * Viewing CloudTrail Insights events for trails
       * Viewing CloudTrail Insights events for trails in the CloudTrail console
       * Viewing CloudTrail Insights events for trails with the AWS CLI
   
    * Copying trail events to CloudTrail Lake
    * Getting and viewing your CloudTrail log files
       * Downloading your CloudTrail log files
   
    * Configuring Amazon SNS notifications for CloudTrail
    * Tips for managing trails
       * Managing CloudTrail trail costs
       * Naming requirements
       * Create multiple trails
   
    * Controlling user permissions
    * Supported VPC endpoints
    * AWS account closure and trails

 * Configure CloudTrail settings
    * Organization delegated administrator
       * Required permissions to assign a delegated administrator
       * Add a CloudTrail delegated administrator
       * Remove a CloudTrail delegated administrator
   
    * Service-linked channels

 * Understanding CloudTrail events
    * Management events
    * Data events
    * Insights events
    * CloudTrail record contents
       * Example sharedEventID
       * Services that support TLS details in CloudTrail
   
    * CloudTrail userIdentity element
    * Insights insightDetails element
    * Non-API events captured by CloudTrail
       * AWS service events
       * AWS Management Console sign-in events

 * CloudTrail log files
    * Receiving CloudTrail log files from multiple Regions
    * Managing data consistency
    * Monitoring CloudTrail log files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
       * Sending events to CloudWatch Logs
       * Creating CloudWatch alarms for CloudTrail events: examples
       * Stopping CloudTrail from sending events to CloudWatch Logs
       * CloudWatch log group and log stream naming for CloudTrail
       * Role policy document for CloudTrail to use CloudWatch Logs for
         monitoring
   
    * Receiving CloudTrail log files from multiple accounts
       * Setting bucket policy for multiple accounts
       * Create trails in additional accounts
   
    * Sharing CloudTrail log files between AWS accounts
    * Validating CloudTrail log file integrity
       * Enabling log file integrity validation for CloudTrail
       * Validating CloudTrail log file integrity with the AWS CLI
       * CloudTrail digest file structure
       * Custom implementations of CloudTrail log file integrity validation
   
    * CloudTrail log file examples
    * Using the CloudTrail Processing Library

 * Security
    * Data protection
    * Identity and Access Management
       * How AWS CloudTrail works with IAM
       * Identity-based policy examples
       * Resource-based policy examples
       * Amazon S3 bucket policy for CloudTrail
       * Amazon S3 bucket policy for CloudTrail Lake query results
       * Amazon SNS topic policy for CloudTrail
       * Troubleshooting
       * Using service-linked roles
       * AWS managed policies
   
    * Compliance validation
    * Resilience
    * Infrastructure security
    * Cross-service confused deputy prevention
    * Security best practices
    * Encrypting CloudTrail log files with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS)
       * Granting permissions to create a KMS key
       * Configure AWS KMS key policies for CloudTrail
          * Default KMS key policy created in CloudTrail console
      
       * Updating a resource to use your KMS key
       * Enabling and disabling CloudTrail log file encryption with the AWS CLI

 * Document history
 * AWS Glossary

Creating a trail for your AWS account - AWS CloudTrail
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CREATING A TRAIL FOR YOUR AWS ACCOUNT

PDFRSS

When you create a trail, you enable ongoing delivery of events as log files to
an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Creating a trail has many benefits,
including:

 * A record of events that extends past 90 days.

 * The option to automatically monitor and alarm on specified events by sending
   log events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

 * The option to query logs and analyze AWS service activity with Amazon Athena.

Beginning on April 12, 2019, you can view trails only in the AWS Regions where
they log events. If you create a trail that logs events in all AWS Regions, it
appears in the console in all Regions in the AWS partition in which you are
working. If you create a trail that only logs events in a single Region, you can
view and manage it only in that Region. Creating a multi-Region trail is the
default option if you create a trail by using the AWS CloudTrail console, and is
a recommended best practice. To create a single-Region trail, you must use the
AWS CLI.

If you use AWS Organizations, you can create a trail that will log events for
all AWS accounts in the organization. A trail with the same name will be created
in each member account, and events from each trail will be delivered to the
Amazon S3 bucket that you specify.

NOTE

Only the management account or delegated administrator account for an
organization can create a trail for the organization. Creating a trail for an
organization automatically enables integration between CloudTrail and
Organizations. For more information, see Creating a trail for an organization.

TOPICS

 * Creating and updating a trail with the console
 * Creating, updating, and managing trails with the AWS Command Line Interface

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