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s3-bucket-logging-enabled

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s3-bucket-logging-enabled - AWS Config

Checks if logging is enabled for your S3 buckets. The rule is NON_COMPLIANT if logging is not enabled.

Identifier: S3_BUCKET_LOGGING_ENABLED

Resource Types: AWS::S3::Bucket

Trigger type: Configuration changes

AWS Region: All supported AWS regions

Parameters:

targetBucket (Optional)
Type: String

Target S3 bucket for storing server access logs.

targetPrefix (Optional)
Type: String

Prefix of the S3 bucket for storing server access logs.

Proactive Evaluation

For steps on how to run this rule in proactive mode, see Evaluating Your Resources with AWS Config Rules. For this rule to return COMPLIANT in proactive mode, the resource configuration schema for the StartResourceEvaluation API needs to include the following inputs, encoded as a string:

"ResourceConfiguration": ... { "BucketName": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket", "LoggingConfiguration": { "DestinationBucketName": "amzn-s3-demo-destination-bucket", "LogFilePrefix":"my-log" } } ...

For more information on proactive evaluation, see Evaluation Mode.

AWS CloudFormation template

To create AWS Config managed rules with AWS CloudFormation templates, see Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates.

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