Logging and auditing are required for any organization from a compliance and governance point of view. If your organization operates in one of the highly regulated industries such as banking, financial services, healthcare, and so on, then it must go through frequent security audits in order to maintain compliance with industry regulations. These audits can be internal or external depending on the nature of your business.
We learnt in the previous chapters that security of the IT environment is a shared responsibility between AWS and its customers. While AWS is responsible for maintaining security of resources, tools, services, and features available in the AWS cloud, the customer is responsible for configuring security for all these services and the security of their data. AWS communicates information related to security with customers periodically...