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performing-cloud-forensics-with-aws-cloudtrail
Perform forensic investigation of AWS environments using CloudTrail logs to reconstruct attacker activity, identify compromised credentials, and analyze API call patterns.
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# Performing Cloud Forensics with AWS CloudTrail
## When to Use
- When investigating suspected AWS account compromise
- After detecting unauthorized API calls or credential exposure
- During incident response involving cloud infrastructure
- When analyzing S3 data exfiltration or IAM privilege escalation
- For post-incident forensic timeline reconstruction
## Detection Gaps & Validation
- **LookupEvents won't show data-plane activity:** `cloudtrail:LookupEvents` returns only management events for the last 90 days. S3 `GetObject`, `PutObject`, and Lambda `Invoke` are *data events*, absent unless data event logging was enabled before the incident - pivot to S3 server access logs / Athena to prove exfiltration.
- **Single-region or non-org trails leave blind spots:** an attacker operating in an unmonitored region produces no events in a region-scoped trail. Confirm the trail is multi-region and org-wide via `aws cloudtrail describe-trails` (`IsMultiRegionTrail`, `IsOrganizationTrail`).