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AWS CloudWatch:
Provides monitoring and observability tools for AWS resources, applications, and services.
Allows tracking of metrics, collection, and monitoring of log files, and setting alarms.
Scales with AWS resources, integrates with other AWS services, and provides real-time monitoring.
Enables log aggregation and analysis, simplifying troubleshooting and issue resolution.
AWS CloudTrail:
Records API calls within an AWS account, creating an audit trail of actions.
Helps meet compliance requirements and provides visibility into account activity.
Integrates with other AWS services for cross-service analysis and enhanced security controls.
Offers centralized security management and aggregates security data from various sources.
Integrates with security partners and offers actionable insights and remediation steps.
AWS CloudWatch:
Configuration complexity.
AWS CloudTrail:
AWS Security Hub provides near real-time monitoring of security-related events and findings. It
continuously analyzes data from various AWS services and third-party security tools, providing up-to-
date information on the security posture of your AWS environment. It aggregates and correlates
security findings, helping you identify and respond to security events promptly.
AWS CloudWatch:
AWS CloudTrail:
Key Features: Continuous security monitoring, automated compliance checks, and a centralized
dashboard.
Use Cases: Security and compliance monitoring, vulnerability management, and threat detection.
AWS Security Hub's security dashboard provides an overview of security findings and metrics, allows
filtering and sorting of findings, presents trends and benchmarking against industry standards, and
offers customization options. It also performs automated compliance checks, supports predefined
compliance standards, generates compliance reports, and provides remediation guidance.
AWS Security Hub enables customized automation through integration with AWS Systems Manager
Automation. This allows users to define their own automation documents and create customized
automation workflows for tasks such as remediation actions, incident response, and security
orchestration.
By combining the capabilities of AWS Security Hub and AWS Systems Manager Automation, users can
design and implement automation workflows tailored to their specific security requirements and
operational needs.