AWS Auditing
AWS Tutorial: AWS Auditing
Welcome to the AWS Auditing lesson. While AWS Artifact provides reports on AWS's infrastructure, you are still responsible for proving that your architecture complies with corporate policies.
Why Learn AWS Auditing?
Preparing for an IT audit usually requires engineers to spend weeks taking screenshots of firewalls and user permissions. Learning AWS auditing tools automates this entire process, saving thousands of engineering hours.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn about:
- AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager helps you continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards.
Instead of manually collecting evidence, Audit Manager connects directly to services like AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS Security Hub to automatically gather data about your resource configurations and user activities. It packages this data into an assessment report that is completely ready for your auditors.
If your company must comply with a specific framework (like the CIS framework or GDPR), Audit Manager has pre-built templates that automatically map your AWS resources to those exact framework requirements.
Exercise
?Which service automatically collects evidence about your AWS resource configurations to help you prepare for compliance assessments?