AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources in near real time. You can collect and monitor resource usage and key metrics in a SPOG view. CloudWatch presents every resource metric on its dashboard for quick view. However, for DFIR teams, CloudWatch can query certain logs to support an investigation.
From a security perspective, CloudWatch is a log management solution that can centrally collect and monitor logs from systems, applications, and resources. It offers log analytics on top to allow interactive searching and analysis capabilities. Similar to CloudTrail, CloudWatch offers log exports via S3 buckets. Note that logs in CloudWatch never expire and are retained indefinitely. Administrators can change the retention policy and choose between a log retention of a day or up to 10 years. Alternatively, organizations can send CloudWatch logs to an SIEM solution via an API for centralized monitoring and management of logs.
CloudWatch is a service that allows you to...