Document History
The following table describes the documentation release history of AWS CloudTrail.
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API version: 2013-11-01
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Latest documentation update: August 15, 2017
| Change | Description | Release Date |
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| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lex. See Artificial Intelligence. | August 15, 2017 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Migration Hub. See Migration. | August 14, 2017 |
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Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports CloudTrail being enabled by default for all AWS accounts. The past seven days of account activity are available in CloudTrail event history, and the most recent events appear on the console dashboard. The feature formerly known as API activity history has been replaced by Event history. For more information, see How CloudTrail Works. |
August 14, 2017 |
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Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports downloading events from the CloudTrail console on the API activity history page. You can download events in JSON or CSV format. For more information, see Downloading Events. |
July 27, 2017 |
| Added functionality |
This release supports logging Amazon S3 object level API operations in two additional regions, EU (London) and Canada (Central). For more information, see Logging Data and Management Events for Trails. |
July 19, 2017 |
|
Added service support |
This release supports looking up APIs for Amazon CloudWatch Events in the CloudTrail
API
activity history feature.
For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch APIs. |
June 27, 2017 |
|
Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports additional APIs in the CloudTrail API activity history feature for the following services:
For more information, see Services Supported by CloudTrail Event History. |
June 27, 2017 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS CodeStar. See Developer Tools. | June 14, 2017 |
| Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports the following updates to the CloudTrail Processing Library:
For more information, see Using the CloudTrail Processing Library and the CloudTrail Processing Library on GitHub. |
June 1, 2017 |
|
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Athena. See Analytics. |
May 19, 2017 |
| Added functionality |
This release supports sending data events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. For more information about configuring your trail to log data events, see Data Events. For more information about sending events to CloudWatch Logs, see Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
May 9, 2017 |
| Added service support | This release supports the AWS Marketplace Metering Service. See Additional Software & Services. | May 2, 2017 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon QuickSight. See Analytics. |
April 28, 2017 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports an updated console experience for creating new trails. You can now configure a new trail to log management and data events. For more information, see Creating a Trail. | April 11, 2017 |
| Added documentation |
If CloudTrail is not delivering logs to your S3 bucket or sending SNS notifications from some regions in your account, you may need to update the policies. To learn more about updating your S3 bucket policy, see Common S3 Policy Configuration Errors. To learn more about updating your SNS topic policy, see Common SNS Policy Configuration Errors. |
March 31, 2017 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Organizations. See Management Tools. | February 27, 2017 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports an updated console experience for configuring trails for logging management and data events. For more information, see Logging Data and Management Events for Trails. | February 10, 2017 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Cloud Directory. See Security, Identity & Compliance. |
January 26, 2017 |
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Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports looking up APIs for AWS CodeCommit, Amazon GameLift, and AWS Managed Services in the CloudTrail API activity history. For more information, see Services Supported by CloudTrail Event History. |
January 26, 2017 |
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Added functionality |
This release supports integration with the AWS Personal Health Dashboard. You can use the Personal Health Dashboard to identify if your trails are unable to deliver logs to an SNS topic or S3 bucket. This can occur when there is an issue with the policy for the S3 bucket or SNS topic. Personal Health Dashboard notifies you about the affected trails and recommends ways to fix the policy.For more information, see the AWS Health User Guide. |
January 24, 2017 |
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Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports filtering by event source in the CloudTrail console. Event source shows the AWS service to which the request was made. For more information, see Viewing CloudTrail Events in the CloudTrail Console. |
January 12, 2017 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS CodeCommit. See Developer Tools. | January 11, 2017 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Lightsail. See Compute. | December 23, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Managed Services. See Management Tools. | December 21, 2016 |
| Added region support | This release supports the EU (London) Region. See CloudTrail Supported Regions. | December 13, 2016 |
| Added region support | This release supports the Canada (Central) Region. See CloudTrail Supported Regions. | December 8, 2016 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS CodeBuild See Developer Tools. This release supports AWS Health. See Support. This release supports AWS Step Functions. See Application Services. |
December 1, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Polly. See Artificial Intelligence. | November 30, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate. See Management Tools. | November 23, 2016 |
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Added functionality and documentation |
This release supports configuring your trail to log read-only, write-only, or all events. CloudTrail supports logging Amazon S3 object level API operations such as
For more information, see Logging Data and Management Events for Trails. |
November 21, 2016 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports additional values for the type field
in the userIdentity element: AWSAccount and
AWSService. For more information, see the Fields for
userIdentity.
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November 16, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Server Migration Service. See Migration. | November 14, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports Application Auto Scaling. See Compute. | October 31, 2016 |
| Added region support | This release supports the US East (Ohio) Region. See CloudTrail Supported Regions. | October 17, 2016 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports logging non-API AWS service events. For more information, see AWS Service Events. | September 23, 2016 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports using the CloudTrail console to view resource types that are supported by AWS Config. For more information, see Viewing Resources Referenced with AWS Config. | July 7, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Service Catalog. See Management Tools. | July 6, 2016 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). See Storage. |
June 28, 2016 |
| Added region support | This release supports one additional region: ap-south-1 (Asia Pacific (Mumbai)). See CloudTrail Supported Regions. | June 27, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Application Discovery Service. See Management Tools. | May 12, 2016 |
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Added service support |
This release supports CloudWatch Logs in the South America (São Paulo) Region. For more information, see Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
May 6, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS WAF. See Security, Identity & Compliance. | April 28, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Support. See Support. | April 21, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Inspector. See Security, Identity & Compliance. | April 20, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS IoT. See Internet of Things. | April 11, 2016 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports logging AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) API calls made with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and web identity federation. For more information, see Values for AWS STS APIs with SAML and Web Identity Federation. | March 28, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Certificate Manager. See Security, Identity & Compliance. | March 25, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Kinesis Firehose. See Analytics. | March 17, 2016 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs. See Management Tools. |
March 10, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Cognito. See Mobile Services. | February 18, 2016 |
| Added service support | This release supports AWS Database Migration Service. See Migration. | February 4, 2016 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon GameLift (GameLift). See Game Development. |
January 27, 2016 |
|
Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch Events. See Management Tools. |
January 16, 2016 |
| Added region support | This release supports one additional region: ap-northeast-2 (Asia Pacific (Seoul)). See CloudTrail Supported Regions. | January 6, 2016 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR). See Compute. |
December 21, 2015 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports turning on CloudTrail across all regions and support for multiple trails per region. For more information, see How Does CloudTrail Behave Regionally and Globally?. | December 17, 2015 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Machine Learning. See Artificial Intelligence. | December 10, 2015 |
| Added functionality and documentation | This release supports log file encryption, log file integrity validation, and tagging. For more information, see Encrypting CloudTrail Log Files with AWS KMS–Managed Keys (SSE-KMS), Validating CloudTrail Log File Integrity, and Updating a Trail. | October 1, 2015 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service. See Analytics. | October 1, 2015 |
| Added service support | This release supports Amazon S3 bucket level events. See Storage. | September 1, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Device Farm. See Mobile Services. |
July 13, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon API Gateway. See Application Services. |
July 9, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS CodePipeline. See Developer Tools. |
July 9, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon DynamoDB. See Database. |
May 28, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports CloudWatch Logs in the US West (N. California) region. See the CloudTrail release notes. For more information about CloudTrail support for CloudWatch Logs monitoring, see Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. |
May 19, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Directory Service. See Security, Identity & Compliance. |
May 14, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). See Application Services. |
May 7, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon EC2 Container Service See Compute. |
April 9, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Lambda. See Compute. |
April 9, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon WorkSpaces. See Desktop & App Streaming. |
April 9, 2015 |
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This release supports the lookup of AWS activity captured by CloudTrail (CloudTrail events). You can look up and filter events in your account related to creation, modification, or deletion. To look up these events, you can use the CloudTrail console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the AWS SDK. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History. |
March 12, 2015 |
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Added service support and new documentation |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Frankfurt) regions. Additional CloudWatch alarm examples have been added to Creating CloudWatch Alarms for CloudTrail Events, and a new page has been added: Using a AWS CloudFormation Template to Create CloudWatch Alarms. |
March 5, 2015 |
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Added API support |
This release supports Amazon EC2 Systems Manager (SSM). SSM lets you configure, manage and easily deploy custom Windows instance configurations. For more information about SSM, see Managing Windows Instance Configuration. For information about the SSM API calls logged by CloudTrail, see Logging SSM API Calls Using AWS CloudTrail. |
February 17, 2015 |
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New documentation |
A new section that describes CloudTrail support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) regional endpoints has been added to the CloudTrail Concepts page. |
February 17, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Route 53. See Networking & Content Delivery. |
February 11, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Config. See Management Tools. |
February 10, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS CloudHSM. See Security, Identity & Compliance. |
January 8, 2015 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS CodeDeploy. See Developer Tools. |
December 17, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Storage Gateway. See Storage. |
December 16, 2014 |
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Added region support |
This release supports one additional region: us-gov-west-1 (AWS GovCloud (US)). See CloudTrail Supported Regions. |
December 16, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Glacier. See Storage. |
December 11, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Data Pipeline. See Analytics. |
December 2, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Key Management Service. See Security, Identity & Compliance. |
November 12, 2014 |
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New documentation |
A new section, Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, has been added to the guide. It describes how to use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor CloudTrail log events. |
November 10, 2014 |
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New documentation |
A new section, Using the CloudTrail Processing Library, has been added to the guide. It provides information about how to write a CloudTrail log processor in Java using the AWS CloudTrail Processing Library. |
November 5, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Elastic Transcoder. See Application Services. |
October 27, 2014 |
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Added region support |
This release supports one additional region: eu-central-1 (EU (Frankfurt)). See CloudTrail Supported Regions. |
October 23, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudSearch. See Analytics. |
October 16, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Simple Notification Service. See Messaging. |
October 09, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon ElastiCache. See Database. |
September 15, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon WorkDocs. See Business Productivity. |
August 27, 2014 |
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Added new content |
This release includes a topic that discusses logging sign-in events. See AWS Console Sign-in Events. |
July 24, 2014 |
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Added new content |
The eventVersion element for this release has been upgraded to version 1.02 and three new fields have been added. See CloudTrail Record Contents. |
July 18, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Auto Scaling (see Compute) and Amazon SQS (see Messaging). |
July 17, 2014 |
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Added region support |
This release supports three additional regions: ap-southeast-1 (Asia Pacific (Singapore)), ap-northeast-1 (Asia Pacific (Tokyo)), sa-east-1 (South America (São Paulo)). See CloudTrail Supported Regions. |
June 30, 2014 |
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Additional service support |
This release supports Amazon Redshift. See Analytics. |
June 10, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS OpsWorks. See Management Tools. |
June 5, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudFront. See Networking & Content Delivery. |
May 28, 2014 |
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Added region support |
This release supports three additional regions: us-west-1 (US West (N. California)), eu-west-1 (EU (Ireland)), ap-southeast-2 (Asia Pacific (Sydney)). See CloudTrail Supported Regions. |
May 13, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Simple Workflow Service. See Application Services. |
May 9, 2014 |
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Added new content |
This release includes topics that discuss sharing log files between accounts. See Sharing CloudTrail Log Files Between AWS Accounts. |
May 2, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon CloudWatch. See Management Tools. |
April 28, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon Kinesis. See Analytics. |
April 22, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports AWS Direct Connect. See Networking & Content Delivery. |
April 11, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Amazon EMR. See Analytics. |
April 4, 2014 |
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Added service support |
This release supports Elastic Beanstalk. See Compute. |
April 2, 2014 |
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Additional service support |
This release supports AWS CloudFormation. See Management Tools. |
March 7, 2014 |
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New guide |
This release introduces AWS CloudTrail. |
November 13, 2013 |
