AWS CloudTrail

2024/05/30 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   CloudTrail Lake returns PartitionKeys in the GetEventDataStore API response. Events are grouped into partitions based on these keys for better query performance. For example, the calendarday key groups events by day, while combining the calendarday key with the hour key groups them by day and hour.

2024/01/18 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds a new API ListInsightsMetricData to retrieve metric data from CloudTrail Insights.

2023/11/27 - 2 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   CloudTrail Lake now supports federating event data stores. giving users the ability to run queries against their event data using Amazon Athena.

2023/11/15 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   The Lake Repricing feature lets customers configure a BillingMode for an event data store. The BillingMode determines the cost for ingesting and storing events and the default and maximum retention period for the event data store.

2023/11/09 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   The Insights in Lake feature lets customers enable CloudTrail Insights on a source CloudTrail Lake event data store and create a destination event data store to collect Insights events based on unusual management event activity in the source event data store.

2023/06/13 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This feature allows users to view dashboards for CloudTrail Lake event data stores.

2023/06/02 - 2 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   This feature allows users to start and stop event ingestion on a CloudTrail Lake event data store.

2023/01/31 - 6 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add new "Channel" APIs to enable users to manage channels used for CloudTrail Lake integrations, and "Resource Policy" APIs to enable users to manage the resource-based permissions policy attached to a channel.

2022/11/07 - 2 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes support for configuring a delegated administrator to manage an AWS Organizations organization CloudTrail trails and event data stores, and AWS Key Management Service encryption of CloudTrail Lake event data stores.

2022/10/19 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes support for exporting CloudTrail Lake query results to an Amazon S3 bucket.

2022/09/19 - 5 new api methods

Changes   This release includes support for importing existing trails into CloudTrail Lake.

2022/09/09 - 2 new api methods

Changes   This release adds CloudTrail getChannel and listChannels APIs to allow customer to view the ServiceLinkedChannel configurations.

2022/03/02 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Add bytesScanned field into responses of DescribeQuery and GetQueryResults.

2022/01/05 - 11 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for CloudTrail Lake, a new feature that lets you run SQL-based queries on events that you have aggregated into event data stores. New APIs have been added for creating and managing event data stores, and creating, running, and managing queries in CloudTrail Lake.

2021/11/16 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   CloudTrail Insights now supports ApiErrorRateInsight, which enables customers to identify unusual activity in their AWS account based on API error codes and their rate.

2020/11/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   CloudTrail now includes advanced event selectors, which give you finer-grained control over the events that are logged to your trail.

2019/11/20 - 2 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   1. This release adds two new APIs, GetInsightSelectors and PutInsightSelectors, which let you configure CloudTrail Insights event delivery on a trail. An Insights event is a new type of event that is generated when CloudTrail detects unusual activity in your AWS account. In this release, only "ApiCallRateInsight" is a supported Insights event type. 2. This release also adds the new "ExcludeManagementEventSource" option to the existing PutEventSelectors API. This field currently supports only AWS Key Management Services.

2019/11/01 - 2 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds two new APIs, GetTrail and ListTrails, and support for adding tags when you create a trail by using a new TagsList parameter on CreateTrail operations.

2018/11/20 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release supports creating a trail in CloudTrail that logs events for all AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. This helps enable you to define a uniform event logging strategy for your organization. An organization trail is applied automatically to each account in the organization and cannot be modified by member accounts. To learn more, please see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-user-guide.html

2018/10/12 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   The LookupEvents API now supports two new attribute keys: ReadOnly and AccessKeyId

2016/11/21 - 2 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release of AWS CloudTrail supports configuring your trail with event selectors. Use event selectors to specify the type of events that you want your trails to log. You can configure event selectors to log read-only, write-only, or all events. CloudTrail supports logging Amazon S3 object level APIs such as GetObject, DeleteObject, and PutObject. You can configure event selectors for your trail to log object level operations.