AWS Audit Manager

aws/security aws/compliance aws/governance aws/service

💡 Definition

AWS Audit Manager helps you continuously audit your AWS usage to easily manage risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards. It automates the collection of evidence to make auditing easier and more efficient.

🔑 Key Concepts

Automated Evidence Collection: Continuously collects data from various AWS services (AWS Config, CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub, etc.) and organizes it into audit-ready reports.
Prebuilt Frameworks: Provides prebuilt frameworks for common industry standards and regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2).
Custom Frameworks: Allows you to create custom frameworks to meet your specific internal audit requirements.
Audit Reports: Generates comprehensive, exportable reports that contain collected evidence, making it easier to demonstrate compliance to auditors.

⚙️ How it Works

You select a prebuilt framework (or create a custom one) and specify the AWS accounts and services to be included in the audit. Audit Manager then continuously collects relevant evidence (e.g., configuration changes from AWS Config, API activity from CloudTrail) and maps it to the controls defined in your framework. When an audit is needed, you can generate a report with all the collected evidence.

🎯 Use Cases

Simplifying Audits: Reducing the manual effort of gathering evidence for compliance audits.
Continuous Compliance Monitoring: Maintaining an ongoing view of your compliance posture.
Risk Management: Identifying and addressing potential compliance gaps proactively.

💰 Pricing Model

Evidence Collection: Charged based on the number of resource assessments and user activity events processed per month.

📝 Exam Tips (CLF-C02)

Keywords: "Automated evidence collection", "Compliance audits", "Risk and compliance management".
Focuses on automating the audit process and generating reports for regulatory and industry standards.
Complements services like AWS Config and CloudTrail by collecting and organizing their output into audit-specific reports.

See Also: * AWS Config * AWS Artifact * CloudTrail * AWS Compliance