Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Setup

Lets begin to set up CloudTrail by following these steps:

1. The first thing we will do is navigate to the CloudTrail service in the AWS web console and click the Create trail button on the main page:

Figure 1: Where to find the Create trail button on the CloudTrail service page

2. We are going to name our trail ExampleTrail, then the next option we are presented with on the page is the first best practice that we will look at. The option asks if we would like to apply this trail to all regions, which best practices say to say yes, apply my trail to all regions. This is because CloudTrail can operate on a per-region basis, so you would ...