Trails for AWS CloudTrail Getting Started

Course description

In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of trails for AWS CloudTrail. Using trails for CloudTrail, you can archive, analyze, and respond to changes in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. A trail is a configuration that helps deliver CloudTrail events to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that you specify.

In this course, you will also review the basics of trails for CloudTrail and the business and technical challenges it can solve.

‐      Course level: Fundamental

‐      Duration: 1 hour

Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and knowledge checks.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

‐      Understand the basic technical concepts of trails for CloudTrail.

‐      Understand both the business and technical challenges of trails for CloudTrail.

‐      Create a trail and query logs.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

AWS customers, partners, and internal resources who want to better understand how trails for CloudTrail can help them operate AWS solutions at scale.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following:

‐      A basic understanding of AWS offerings

‐      Completed the Getting Started with AWS CloudTrail course

Course outline

‐      Introduction to Trails for CloudTrail

‐      Architecture and Use Cases

‐      How Do I Create a Trail in AWS CloudTrail in the AWS Management Console?

‐      How Do I Query AWS CloudTrail Logs?

‐      How Do I Use AWS CLI with Trails for CloudTrail?

‐      How Do I Delete Resources?