Centralized CloudTrail monitoring across 100+ AWS accounts | Amazon Web Services

Centralized CloudTrail monitoring across 100+ AWS accounts | Amazon Web Services

Organizations running workloads across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts face a common challenge: centralized security monitoring at scale. Security teams need to search through hundreds of gigabytes of AWS CloudTrail logs daily to detect threats and satisfy compliance requirements for SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA audits. They also need to provide role-based access to multiple teams with different responsibilities.

Without purpose-built infrastructure, this often involves manual log searching that takes hours and compliance report generation that takes days. It also leads to fragmented code bases of custom AWS Lambda functions managing index lifecycles across environments. A single shared search domain without consistent access control compounds the problem further.

In this post, we show you how to build a centralized CloudTrail monitoring solution on Amazon OpenSearch Service. Terraform manages the full stack, from domain provisioning to access control and…

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