AWS CloudTrail Lake introduces a new one-year extendable retention pricing option optimized for flexible data retention needs, allowing cost-effective retention of auditable data sources in alignment with compliance programs and forensic/operational investigations.

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<p>AWS CloudTrail Lake announces a new one-year extendable retention pricing option optimized for flexible data retention needs. This option allows you to retain data for one year with ingestion charges, and extend the retention period up to 10 years by paying additional charges after the first year.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for aggregating, storing, and analyzing activity logs</li>
<li>The new one-year extendable retention pricing option is available in addition to the existing 7-year retention pricing</li>
<li>The new option is cost-effective for compliance, audit, security, and operational investigations</li>
<li>You can choose between the one-year extendable retention (default) and 7-year retention options when creating a new event data store</li>
<li>Existing event data stores can be converted to the new pricing option</li>
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AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retention

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