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AWS FinOps Simplified

You're reading from   AWS FinOps Simplified Eliminate cloud waste through practical FinOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247236
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Chung Peter Chung
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: FinOps Foundation 2. Part 1: Managing Your AWS Inventory FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Establishing the Right Account Structure 4. Chapter 3: Managing Inventory 5. Chapter 4: Planning and Metrics Tracking 6. Chapter 5: Governing Cost and Usage 7. Part 2: Optimizing Your AWS Resources
8. Chapter 6: Optimizing Compute 9. Chapter 7: Optimizing Storage 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing Networking 11. Chapter 9: Optimizing Cloud-Native Environments 12. Part 3: Operationalizing FinOps
13. Chapter 10: Data-Driven FinOps 14. Chapter 11: Driving FinOps Autonomously 15. Chapter 12: Management Functions 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Auditing with CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is primarily used to audit, secure, and track user activity and API usage for your AWS accounts. CloudTrail continuously monitors and retains account activity for all actions performed within your AWS environments. Although not directly related to cost optimization, CloudTrail is an important governance tool nonetheless and it’s worth mentioning here.

When you use the default AWS Control Tower settings to deploy a multi-account AWS environment, Control Tower automatically creates a CloudTrail baseline and a logging account that aggregates API activity across all your accounts. The CloudTrail service collects and retains this log information for you to query and analyze at the required time. If you’re not using Control Tower, you have to enable CloudTrail manually for the AWS account.

CloudTrail is helpful for seeing the activities that are taking place to track their cost and usage. This is especially helpful if certain resources...

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