Logging EC2 Image Builder API calls using AWS CloudTrail
EC2 Image Builder is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions all API calls for taken by a user, role, or an AWS service through the Image Builder API. CloudTrail captures Image Builder as events. The calls captured include calls from the Image Builder console and code calls to the Image Builder API operations.
If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an S3 bucket, including events for Image Builder. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to Image Builder, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
To learn more about CloudTrail, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.
Image Builder information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Image Builder, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see Viewing events with CloudTrail Event history.
For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for Image Builder, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see the following:
CloudTrail logs all Image Builder actions that are documented in the EC2 Image Builder
API Reference. For example, calls to the CreateImagePipeline,
UpdateInfrastructureConfiguration, and StartImagePipelineExecution
actions generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:
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Whether the request was made with root or IAM user credentials.
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Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user.
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Whether the request was made by another AWS service.
For more information about determining who requested an event, see the CloudTrail userIdentity element.
