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AWS Auditing

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Summary

Audit is a systematic assessment of evidence that the system has been running in accordance with established policies and controls. AWS provides CloudTrail for activity tracking, AWS Config for configuration history, and AWS Artifact for third party audit reports. Complete and intact evidence makes the certification process much easier.

Key points

Audit compares real conditions to standards or policies
CloudTrail provides evidence of who did what.
AWS Config stores the history and status of resource configuration
Encryption and integrity validation maintain the authenticity of evidence
AWS Artifact contains an independent audit report on AWS

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