Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have launched a new dashboard that simplifies the analysis of AWS Network Firewall logs. Previously, in our blog post How to analyze AWS Network Firewall logs using Amazon OpenSearch Service we demonstrated the required services and steps to create an OpenSearch dashboard. The new dashboard removes these extra steps and streamlines the entire process. In this post, I show you how to build and use the new OpenSearch Service dashboards to analyze Network Firewall logs more efficiently.
Network Firewall is a managed security service that protects Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) VPCs by monitoring and filtering network traffic. Network Firewall provides stateful inspection, which gives you information that you can use to create custom rules to control incoming and outgoing traffic. It automatically scales, offers high availability, and integrates with other AWS security services, in addition to helping to…