Streamline SaaS application audit costs with AWS AppFabric and Amazon S3

This article discusses how to streamline the management of audit logs from multiple SaaS applications using AWS AppFabric and Amazon S3. It highlights the challenges of handling disparate log formats and long-term storage costs for compliance purposes.

Specifically, the article covers:

• How AWS AppFabric can simplify connecting to various SaaS applications, normalize their audit logs into a standard format (Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework), and route the normalized logs to data stores or analytics services.
• How Amazon S3 provides a scalable, durable, and cost-effective storage solution for long-term retention of audit logs to meet regulatory requirements. Various storage classes and lifecycle policies can optimize costs based on data access patterns.
• The combined benefits of using AppFabric for SaaS log aggregation and normalization, and Amazon S3 for cost-optimized long-term log storage, enabling organizations to centralize audit log management and improve security and compliance posture.