Amazon CloudTrail Free Tier
What is CloudTrail
Amazon CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your Amazon Web Services account. With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your Amazon Web Services infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of your Amazon Web Services account activity, including actions taken through the Amazon Management Console, Amazon SDKs, command line tools, and other Amazon Web Services services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs Integration
Amazon CloudTrail integration with Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to send management and data events recorded by CloudTrail to CloudWatch Logs. CloudWatch Logs allows you to create metric filters to monitor events, search events, and stream events to other Amazon Web Services services, such as Amazon Lambda.

Amazon CloudWatch Events
Amazon CloudTrail integration with Amazon CloudWatch Events enables you to automatically respond to changes to your Amazon Web Services resources. With CloudWatch Events, you are able to define actions to execute when specific events are logged by Amazon CloudTrail. For example, if CloudTrail logs a change to an Amazon EC2 security group, such as adding a new ingress rule, you can create a CloudWatch Events rule that sends this activity to an Amazon Lambda function. Lambda can then execute a workflow to create a ticket in your IT Helpdesk system.
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