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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 1: Detection

Centralizing and analyzing logs: CloudWatch Logs Insights, Athena on S3, Amazon Security Lake and OpenSearch

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Last reviewed September 29, 2026 · Leer en español

Logs are only useful if you can keep them safe and search them quickly. Most organizations send logs from every account to a central log archive account, where the bucket has strict policies, versioning and sometimes Object Lock, and only a few security roles can read it. From there, several tools help you search.

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