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Reputation: 5080

Where are CloudWatch log data stored?

Is there some document available that shows how AWS CloudWatch log data is stored at AWS?

Especially, I would like to know:

  1. Is an existing service (e.g. Amazon S3) used for the storage of events?

  2. Is there any encryption available?

Interestingly, information is available for CloudTrail, but there seems to be no documentation about CloudWatch.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 8336

Answers (2)

akshay jain
akshay jain

Reputation: 85

  1. You need to configure to store in S3 and make sure that retention is enabled even after 90 days

  2. Yes server side encryption is available https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/S3Export.html

Upvotes: -1

Adam Owczarczyk
Adam Owczarczyk

Reputation: 2862

Logs is apparently sitting on top of Kinesis, so:

  1. Yes, existing service, probably custom configured on AWS end
  2. I think they handle this on their side

Based on this: https://youtu.be/pTzv-i1uvvE?t=1386

Upvotes: 5

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