Monitoring, Auditing, and Logging Users and Resource Usage in AWS IAM

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Monitoring, Auditing, and Logging Users and Resource Usage in AWS IAM

In this hands-on lab scenario, you are a security engineer working for a new startup that's launching an online bookstore for rare and antique books. The founder, Kia, needs your help with monitoring and auditing the activities in her account. In order to provide access and ensure the proper security measures are in place, you will use AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) and AWS CloudTrail. You will provide Kia with the credential report, the details from the Access Advisor tab, and you will create a trail using CloudTrail.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Jul 10, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Generate a Credential Report
1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
2. Access Identity & Access Management (IAM).
3. Click Credential Report.
4. Download the report and open it.
Note: The downloading and viewing of the CSV file is not a critical step. You can see example formatting of the CSV file at 00:50 in the solution video.
Challenge

Utilize the Access Advisor Tab
1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
2. Access Identity & Access Management (IAM).
3. Access the developer-1 user.
4. Review the details of the Access Advisor tab.
Challenge

Create a Trail using CloudTrail
1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
2. Access CloudTrail.
3. Review the event history for the account.
4. Create a trail that logs to an Amazon S3 bucket.

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