Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions
CloudTrail should be enabled in all regions to capture API activity across the entire AWS account, not just the primary region.
Security Impact
Without multi-region trails, API activity in other regions is not logged, leaving blind spots for security investigations.
How to Remediate
Create a multi-region trail or ensure trails exist in each region. Enable multi-region trail using: aws cloudtrail update-trail --name TRAIL_NAME --is-multi-region-trail
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-cloudtrail-1
- Service
- AWS CloudTrail
- Category
- Logging
- Severity
- HIGH
- CIS Benchmark
- 3.1
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