Amazon ECS now publishes AWS CloudTrail data events for insight into API activities
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Amazon ECS now supports AWS CloudTrail data events, offering enhanced visibility into Amazon ECS Agent API activities for security and operations teams.
- Provides comprehensive audit trails of ECS Agent API activities
- Enables monitoring of new data event resource type AWS::ECS::ContainerInstance
- Tracks specific ECS agent activities like polling for work, starting telemetry sessions, and submitting logs
- Available for Amazon ECS on EC2 and ECS Managed Instances in all AWS Regions
- Helps teams diagnose operational issues and meet compliance requirements
This feature allows for better understanding of container instance role utilization and improved operational insights.
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