With AWS CloudTrail, you can keep a record of when activity occurs in your AWS account. That activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event.
AWS CloudTrail Getting Started

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What you'll learn
Describe how CloudTrail works and recognize the benefits of CloudTrail.
Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of CloudTrail.
Specify what it would take to implement CloudTrail in a real-world scenario.
Explore how to use CloudTrail on the AWS Console and use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
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Reviewed on Dec 22, 2025
A nice base level explanation of what CloudTrail is and what it does. Nice extra in that it links in with querying CloudTrail from the AWS CLI.
Reviewed on Mar 24, 2026
Amazing! Give good information and now I can understand it more better with Amazon.

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