AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Creating your first CloudTrail Trail

To get started, log in to your AWS Management Console and filter the CloudTrail service from the AWS services filter. On the CloudTrail dashboard, select the Create Trail option to get started:

1. This will bring up the Create Trail wizard. Using this wizard, you can create a maximum of five-trails per region. Type a suitable name for the Trail in to the Trail name field to begin with.

2. Next, you can either opt to Apply trail to all regions or only to the region out of which you are currently operating. Selecting all regions enables CloudTrail to record events from each region and dump the corresponding log files into an S3 bucket that you specify. Alternatively, selecting to record out of one region will ...