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Mastering AWS Security

You're reading from   Mastering AWS Security Create and maintain a secure cloud ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293723
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Anthony Albert Anthony
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Preface 1. Overview of Security in AWS 2. AWS Identity and Access Management FREE CHAPTER 3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 4. Data Security in AWS 5. Securing Servers in AWS 6. Securing Applications in AWS 7. Monitoring in AWS 8. Logging and Auditing in AWS 9. AWS Security Best Practices

AWS CloudWatch Logs

AWS CloudWatch Logs is a monitoring, logging, and log storage feature available as part of the AWS CloudWatch service. You can consume logs from resources in any AWS region; however, you can view logs in the CloudWatch for regions where CloudWatch Logs are supported. Your log data can be encrypted using KMS at the log group level. CloudWatch Logs are primarily used for performing the following tasks:

  • Monitoring all your logs in near real-time by routing them to the AWS CloudWatch Logs; these could be your operating system logs, application logs, AWS service logs, or AWS infrastructure logs such as VPC flow logs and AWS CloudTrail Logs
  • Storing all your logs in a durable storage with configurable retention period
  • Generating logs for your EC2 instances by installing the CloudWatch Logs agent on your EC2 instances
  • Integrated with AWS services such as AWS CloudWatch...
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