
Learn how to capture, store, and analyze PostgreSQL audit data from Amazon RDS by streaming it to Amazon S3 using Kinesis Data Firehose, then processing and querying it with AWS Glue and Amazon Athena for compliance and performance insights.


<div><p>This article explains how to build a centralized audit data collection system for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL using AWS services to capture, store, and analyze audit logs.</p><ul><li>Capture PostgreSQL audit data and store it in Amazon S3 for long-term retention</li><li>Use CloudWatch Logs to stream audit data to Kinesis Data Firehose</li><li>Lambda function decrypts and transforms audit streams before storage</li><li>AWS Glue crawler automatically creates tables and partitions from S3 data</li><li>Query audit data with Amazon Athena using standard SQL</li><li>Offloads audit processing from database to reduce resource consumption</li><li>Solution includes IAM roles, Lambda functions, S3 bucket, and Glue configuration</li></ul><p>This approach centralizes audit data management, improves compliance reporting, and frees database resources by moving audit processing to AWS analytics services.</p></div>


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