Privileged Database User Activity Monitoring using Database Activity Streams(DAS) and Amazon OpenSearch Service
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This article discusses a centralized monitoring solution to capture and analyze audit data from privileged database users using AWS services like Database Activity Streams (DAS), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Lambda, and Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of the solution architecture
- Data source: Enabling DAS on RDS database instances
- Ingestion: DAS sends audit records to Kinesis Data Streams
- Processing: Lambda function decrypts and sends data to OpenSearch Service
- Indexing and searching data in OpenSearch Service
- Visualization: Creating dashboards and alerts in OpenSearch Dashboards
- Benefits of the solution
- Steps to clean up resources
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