Exam AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner topic 1 question 257 discussion

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables customers to log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity-related events in their AWS accounts. It records API calls made by or on behalf of the AWS account and delivers those log files to an Amazon S3 bucket for storage. AWS CloudTrail provides visibility into user activity by recording actions taken on resources and helps with security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing.

The service that enables customers to audit API calls in their AWS accounts is A. AWS CloudTrail. CloudTrail is a fully-managed service that logs, monitors, and retains events related to API calls and other activities in an AWS account. It provides an audit trail of all actions taken by users, applications, and services, making it easier to comply with regulatory requirements and to troubleshoot operational issues. CloudTrail provides event history, tracking of resource changes, and real-time notification of events via CloudWatch Events. It is an essential tool for maintaining visibility and control over your AWS environment

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A. AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables customers to audit API calls in their AWS accounts. It captures API calls made to AWS services, including the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the service. CloudTrail logs are stored in an S3 bucket and can be analyzed using tools such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue, to identify trends and troubleshoot issues. AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Inspector, and AWS X-Ray are not service that enable customers to audit API calls. Trusted Advisor is a service that provides real-time guidance to help optimize performance, security, and cost, Inspector is an automated security assessment service and X-Ray is a service for analyzing and debugging distributed applications.

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With AWS CloudTrail, you can monitor your AWS deployments in the cloud by getting a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made by using the AWS Management Console, the AWS SDKs, the command line tools, and higher-level AWS services.

Well the header literally says "Logging AWS Audit Manager API calls with AWS CloudTrail"

A. True. CloudTrail

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

AWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications. Customers use X-Ray to monitor application traces, including the performance of calls to other downstream components or services, in either cloud-hosted applications or from their own machines during development.

AWS CloudTrail enables auditing, security monitoring, and operational troubleshooting by tracking user activity and API usage. CloudTrail logs, continuously monitors, and retains account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure, giving you control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions.

You can use CloudTrail to audit API calls made by services that are integrated with ACM. For more information about using CloudTrail, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide. The following examples show the types of logs that can be generated depending on the AWS resources on which you provision the ACM certificate. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/ct-related.html

AWS X-Ray

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A is the answer,Keyword here is API calls