Controlling user permissions for CloudTrail trails

AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help you to control access to CloudTrail and other AWS resources that CloudTrail requires. Examples of these resources include Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics. You can use IAM to control which AWS users can create, configure, or delete CloudTrail trails, start and stop logging, and access the buckets that contain log information. To learn more, see Identity and Access Management for AWS CloudTrail.

The following topics help you understand permissions, policies, and CloudTrail security:

• Granting permissions for CloudTrail administration

• Amazon S3 bucket naming rules

• Amazon S3 bucket policy for CloudTrail

• An example of a bucket policy for an organization trail in Creating a trail for an organization with the AWS Command Line Interface.

• Amazon SNS topic policy for CloudTrail

• Encrypting CloudTrail log files with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS)

• Required permissions for copying trail events

• Required permissions to assign a delegated administrator

• Default KMS key policy created in CloudTrail console

• Granting permission to view AWS Config information on the CloudTrail console

• Sharing CloudTrail log files between AWS accounts

• Required permissions for creating an organization trail

• Using a previously-existing IAM role to add monitoring of an organization trail to Amazon CloudWatch Logs