Section 3:Logging and Monitoring
Anything that happens in your accounts from an infrastructure standpoint is captured in some type of log. To pass the security specialty exam and set up a secure AWS environment, it is necessary to grasp which logs contain what type of values. This section takes you through logging and monitoring in AWS and the invaluable insights and clarity these processes offer regarding your infrastructure and applications.
The section comprises the following chapters:
- Chapter 7, Logs Generated by AWS Services
- Chapter 8, CloudWatch and CloudWatch Metrics
- Chapter 9, Parsing Logs and Events with AWS Native Tools
As your workloads run in AWS from day to day, they will generate different types of logs. These various types of logs are what you will learn about in Chapter 7. These logs range from networking logs generated by VPC flow logs and load balancers to access logs generated by the S3 service, along with CloudTrail, which records...