How to Enable Logging on Every AWS Service in Existence (Circa 2021)

Matt Fuller
16 min readJan 3, 2021

Cloud security best practices, as well as most compliance programs, require that logging be enabled for all in-scope services. However, that simple requirement — “enable logging” — comes with many followup questions. Is CloudTrail enough? How do I turn on logging for all these services? Aren’t logs collected by default? What. even. is. a. log?

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Matt Fuller

Founder of @CloudSploit , acquired by @AquaSecTeam . Former Infra / Security / Manager @Adobe , @Aviary & @Mozilla intern, @RITtigers grad, @NYC resident