Using DML auditing for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

This article introduces database auditing for DML (Data Manipulation Language) operations like INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE on Amazon Keyspaces, a managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. It discusses the importance of DML auditing for compliance with data privacy regulations and security requirements.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Benefits of DML auditing, such as monitoring authorized data access and maintaining an audit trail as required by privacy regulations and security policies
• Overview of the solution, which involves integrating Amazon Keyspaces with AWS CloudTrail to capture DML events as log files in Amazon S3
• Step-by-step guide to enable DML auditing in CloudTrail, review log files, and set up CloudWatch metrics and alarms for monitoring DML events
• Additional considerations like securing log files, using customer-managed KMS keys for encryption, enabling log file integrity validation, and monitoring trails
• Conclusion highlighting the ease of DML auditing with Amazon Keyspaces and CloudTrail integration