Glossary term
What is CloudTrail?
In Apex Flow Academy, "CloudTrail" means: The AWS service that records who did what in your account and when. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include CloudWatch, Well-Architected Framework, Auto Scaling and Data transfer. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is CloudTrail?
The AWS service that records who did what in your account and when.
Where is CloudTrail taught?
CloudTrail is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover CloudTrail?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 6.1: Watching and recording: CloudWatch, CloudTrail and AWS Config
Which terms are related to CloudTrail?
Next to CloudTrail in the course glossaries: CloudWatch, Well-Architected Framework, Auto Scaling, Data transfer, Load balancer and Content delivery network (CDN).
CloudWatchWell-Architected FrameworkAuto ScalingData transferLoad balancerContent delivery network (CDN)
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn CloudTrail?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.