Cloud services from Major Services providers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are mostly considered safe from hackers but since these services are self service and sometimes customers tend to leave a loophole in their system which attracts hackers to enter their IT infrastructure with ease. To make sure that things are working fine and there are no unwanted activities performed by anyone within the organization as well as outside, it is really important to enable and use the cloud monitoring and logging for every single event happening in you infrastructure.

In this blog, we will talk about services available in AWS to enabling customers to do monitoring and logging.

Cloud Watch enabled Cloud engineers, developer to monitor their servers, workloads and usage. This service is free with a lot of interesting features enabled by default, however there is also a paid tier if you need advanced monitoring or if logs grow beyond certain limits. This can help to do cot optimization and advanced troubleshooting of issues in the EC2 instances etc.

AWS CloudTrail enables auditing, compliance checks and keeping track for all kinds of API calls and activities done in your AWS infrastructure. AWS Cloudtrail has a lot of free features however if you need advanced auditing. You can also pay cloud trail for advanced audits.

As the name suggests, Guard duty is used for advanced threat detection service that monitors unauthorized behaviors in your AWS account. It used Machine learning and threat intelligence to identify the potential threats. Guard duty pricing depends on the Cloud trails events being audited.

These are really nice features that come with your AWS account which helps in reducing the efforts for IT teams to track and manage the monitoring and logging. However, you still might need to do further advanced level monitoring and logging. You can always consult with Sequence Technologies Team to get free consultation about Cloud management.