The AWS Shared Responsibility Model: 3 Areas of Improvement to Make Today Part 3: Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting in AWS

This post reviews AWS logging and monitoring capabilities—CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch—and recommends best practices for centralized log management, including sending logs to CloudWatch, loading them into Elasticsearch via Lambda, and visualizing with Kibana; it emphasizes log validation, cross-region CloudTrail, retention considerations, and practical architecture controls for securing access to the analytics stack.