How to Monitor Your AWS S3 Activity with InsightIDR

How to Monitor Your AWS S3 Activity with InsightIDR

Hello, fellow AWS enthusiasts! Today, let’s talk about AWS S3 buckets and how InsightIDR can help you monitor important activity. You might be wondering, “How can we get this level of granularity, and from there, what do we do with this visibility?” Let’s answer these questions by walking through this journey step-by-step.


First of all, I will help answer the question of why this is important. Some of you out there who have been operating in these cloud-hosted environments for a while may see this as obvious, but for those just entering the space or getting familiar with it, this will serve as helpful context.


What is Simple Storage Service (S3)?


AWS started out by providing a cloud storage service called Simple Storage Service (S3). This allows users to store large amounts of data without dealing with high costs. From here, they expanded those services to include software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and much, much more.


Today, AWS is a leader in the space and a popular option for organizations both small and large, allowing end users the opportunity to move off traditional on-premises architecture and take advantage of cloud-hosted architecture managed by AWS. This, of course, changed the dynamics of traditional security, and we must use ways to monitor and protect these AWS cloud environments.


Does InsightIDR have AWS integrations?


With InsightIDR, there are native integrations with AWS services such as CloudTrail and GuardDuty, along with out-of-the-box alerts that identify suspicious authenti ..

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