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CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail records AWS account activity. Event history keeps the last 90 days of management events; use trails or event data stores for longer retention and other event types.

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Syntax

aws cloudtrail lookup-events --lookup-attributes AttributeKey=<key>,AttributeValue=<value>

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  • CloudTrail Event history
  • CloudTrail Lake
  • event data store
  • CloudTrail trail
  • CloudTrail Insights events
  • CloudTrail channels
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Source: How CloudTrail works - AWS CloudTrail. Checked 2026-11-03.