Import Historical data from AWS CloudTrail Lake to Amazon CloudWatch | Amazon Web Services

Import Historical data from AWS CloudTrail Lake to Amazon CloudWatch | Amazon Web Services

Organizations managing workloads on AWS rely on AWS CloudTrail to answer the fundamental questions: Who did what, where, and when? Since January 2022, customers have stored their CloudTrail activity logs in CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake purpose-built for capturing, storing, querying user and API activity across their AWS environment. 

As organizations scale across multiple AWS accounts and Regions, security and operations teams face a common challenge: their CloudTrail data lives in isolation from the rest of their operational and security telemetry. When a security incident occurs, analysts need to correlate CloudTrail API activity with Amazon VPC Flow Logs, AWS WAF logs, application logs, and third-party security data, but these signals are scattered across different tools, consoles, and query languages. This context-switching can slow down investigations, increase mean time to resolution (MTTR), and leaves gaps in security coverage. 

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