AWS Monitoring and Logging

How AWS Helps You Monitor and Audit Your Infrastructure

Cloud services from major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are mostly considered safe — but since these are self-service platforms, customers sometimes leave loopholes that attract hackers. To ensure that things are working fine and there are no unwanted activities performed by anyone — inside or outside the organization — it is critically important to enable cloud monitoring and logging for every event happening in your infrastructure.

In this blog, we will talk about the services available in AWS for enabling customers to do monitoring and logging.

AWS Services for Monitoring & Logging

1. CloudWatch

CloudWatch enables Cloud engineers and developers to monitor their servers, workloads, and usage. This service is free with a lot of interesting features enabled by default — however, there is also a paid tier if you need advanced monitoring or if logs grow beyond certain limits. CloudWatch helps with cost optimization and advanced troubleshooting of issues in EC2 instances and more.

2. CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail enables auditing, compliance checks, and keeping track of all API calls and activities done in your AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail has a lot of free features out of the box; however, you can also pay for advanced audit capabilities. It is an essential tool for security and compliance teams.

3. GuardDuty

As the name suggests, GuardDuty is an advanced threat detection service that monitors unauthorized behavior in your AWS account. It uses Machine Learning and threat intelligence to identify potential threats. GuardDuty pricing is based on the number of CloudTrail events being audited.

These are really nice features that come with your AWS account, helping IT teams reduce the effort of tracking and managing monitoring and logging. However, for advanced-level monitoring, you can always consult with the Sequence Technologies team.