AWS CloudTrail

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AWS CloudTrail Skill Overview

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Description

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. It allows you to log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. Additionally, you can use CloudTrail to detect unusual activity in your AWS accounts. These capabilities help simplify operational analysis and troubleshooting.

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Expected Behaviors

Fundamental Awareness
At this level, individuals are expected to have a basic understanding of AWS CloudTrail. They should be able to identify its key features and understand its importance in an AWS environment. However, they may not yet have hands-on experience with the service.
Novice
Novices should be able to navigate through the AWS CloudTrail dashboard and set up the service. They should know how to create and manage trails, configure S3 buckets for CloudTrail logs, and understand the structure of these log files. This level involves more practical application than the fundamental awareness stage.
Intermediate
Intermediate users should be proficient in enabling and disabling AWS CloudTrail, configuring it to deliver log files to CloudWatch Logs, and interpreting CloudTrail log file entries. They should also understand how to use CloudTrail with AWS organizations and implement data events and management events.
Advanced
Advanced users are expected to troubleshoot AWS CloudTrail effectively. They should be able to encrypt CloudTrail log files with AWS KMS, configure log file validation, and monitor API calls using CloudTrail. They should also be comfortable integrating CloudTrail with other AWS services like Lambda, SNS, etc.
Expert
Experts should be capable of optimizing and automating AWS CloudTrail operations. They should be able to implement advanced security measures with CloudTrail, perform forensic analysis using CloudTrail logs, design and implement complex CloudTrail architectures, and develop custom solutions using CloudTrail APIs.

Micro Skills

Fundamental Awareness9 micro skills • 1 months work experience

Recognizing the purpose of AWS CloudTrail

Identifying the main components of AWS CloudTrail

Understanding how AWS CloudTrail works

Understanding the role of AWS CloudTrail in security and compliance

Recognizing the benefits of using AWS CloudTrail for auditing

Identifying the use cases of AWS CloudTrail

Understanding the event history feature of AWS CloudTrail

Recognizing the importance of log file integrity validation in AWS CloudTrail

Identifying the role of AWS CloudTrail in multi-region configuration

Novice18 micro skills • 3 months work experience

Understanding prerequisites for setting up CloudTrail

Creating a new trail in CloudTrail

Configuring trail settings

Choosing an S3 bucket for log delivery

Identifying key components of the CloudTrail dashboard

Accessing and interpreting CloudTrail summary

Navigating to different sections of the CloudTrail console

Editing trail properties

Deleting a trail

Managing multiple trails

Creating a new S3 bucket for CloudTrail logs

Configuring permissions for the S3 bucket

Enabling server-side encryption for the S3 bucket

Configuring S3 bucket policies for CloudTrail

Recognizing the format of CloudTrail log files

Interpreting common fields in a CloudTrail log entry

Understanding the difference between management and data event log entries

Reading and interpreting CloudTrail log file JSON

Intermediate15 micro skills • 6 months work experience

Understanding the process of enabling CloudTrail

Identifying the steps to disable CloudTrail

Recognizing the impact of enabling or disabling CloudTrail on existing trails

Creating a new trail for CloudWatch Logs

Setting up an existing trail to send events to CloudWatch Logs

Understanding the structure of delivered logs

Identifying different parts of a log entry

Interpreting the information in each part of a log entry

Using log entries to track API activity

Setting up organization trail in the management account

Understanding how organization trail receives events from all accounts

Managing organization trail settings

Understanding the difference between data events and management events

Configuring data event logging for S3 bucket or Lambda function

Configuring management event logging for Read/Write events

Advanced20 micro skills • 12 months work experience

Identifying common issues in AWS CloudTrail

Understanding error messages and codes in CloudTrail

Using AWS support and documentation to resolve issues

Analyzing CloudTrail logs for troubleshooting

Understanding the concept of encryption and decryption

Creating and managing AWS KMS keys

Configuring CloudTrail to use KMS keys

Validating the encryption of CloudTrail logs

Understanding the importance of log file validation

Enabling log file integrity validation

Verifying the integrity of log files

Resolving issues related to log file validation

Understanding the structure of API call events in CloudTrail logs

Setting up alerts for specific API call events

Analyzing API call patterns for security and optimization

Integrating CloudTrail with CloudWatch for real-time monitoring

Understanding the integration capabilities of CloudTrail

Setting up integration between CloudTrail and AWS Lambda

Configuring CloudTrail to send notifications via SNS

Implementing custom actions based on CloudTrail events using AWS Lambda

Expert15 micro skills • 24 months work experience

Automating trail creation across multiple accounts

Optimizing storage of CloudTrail logs

Implementing cost-effective strategies for CloudTrail

Setting up alerts for unusual API activities

Encrypting sensitive data in CloudTrail logs

Integrating CloudTrail with AWS GuardDuty for enhanced threat detection

Analyzing log data for security incidents

Using CloudTrail logs for root cause analysis

Interpreting complex log data for audit purposes

Designing multi-region CloudTrail setup

Implementing high availability for CloudTrail

Designing CloudTrail architecture for large scale AWS environments

Creating custom applications to analyze CloudTrail logs

Integrating CloudTrail APIs with third-party applications

Developing automation scripts using CloudTrail APIs

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