Basic cloud auditing tools within AWS
In the sections that follow, as a prerequisite, you may require a minimum level of view or read access to obtain the test evidence independently. Depending upon your specific organization’s configuration and any additional customizations, you may require additional access rights or group memberships to directly access specific content, or you may be required to work with an administrative point of contact for your organization as you observe them pulling control evidence. For reference, any screenshots in the following sections are based on a user with administrative privileges to the cloud environment. In addition, some of the tools may need to be enabled by the cloud customer, if they have not yet been.
We will begin with the basic cloud auditing tools within the AWS platform.
Amazon CloudWatch
The first tool an IT auditor can leverage in AWS is Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch is an AWS native monitoring and management...