Logging IAM Roles Anywhere API calls using Amazon CloudTrail
Amazon Identity and Access Management Roles Anywhere is integrated with Amazon CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an Amazon service in IAM Roles Anywhere. CloudTrail captures all API calls for IAM Roles Anywhere as events. The calls captured include calls from the IAM Roles Anywhere console and code calls to the IAM Roles Anywhere API operations. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for IAM Roles Anywhere. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to IAM Roles Anywhere, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
To learn more about CloudTrail, see the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.
IAM Roles Anywhere information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon Web Services account when you create the account. When activity occurs in IAM Roles Anywhere, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other Amazon service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your Amazon Web Services account. For more information, see Viewing events with CloudTrail Event history.
For an ongoing record of events in your Amazon Web Services account, including events for IAM Roles Anywhere, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all Amazon Web Services Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the Amazon partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other Amazon services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see the following:
All IAM Roles Anywhere actions are logged by CloudTrail and are documented in the IAM Roles Anywhere API Reference. For
example, calls to the
CreateTrustAnchor, ListProfiles, and CreateSession
operations generate entries in the CloudTrail log files. In addition, the userIdentity element's Role Session Name property is the
hex-encoded serial number of the certificate the session was created with and can be used to track a session back to it.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:
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Whether the request was made with root or Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) user credentials.
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Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user.
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Whether the request was made by another Amazon service.
For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity element.
Understanding IAM Roles Anywhere log file entries
A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source and includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and so on. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the
UpdateProfile operation.
{ "eventVersion": "1.08", "userIdentity": { "type": "AssumedRole", "principalId": "AROAZR5EMTJKE753U4ZDS:test-session", "arn": "arn:aws:sts::111122223333:assumed-role/Admin/test-session", "accountId": "111122223333", "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "sessionContext": { "sessionIssuer": { "type": "Role", "principalId": "AROAZR5EMTJKE753U4ZDS", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/Admin", "accountId": "111122223333", "userName": "Admin" }, "webIdFederationData": {}, "attributes": { "creationDate": "2022-03-21T22:40:46Z", "mfaAuthenticated": "false" } } }, "eventTime": "2022-07-01T18:11:27Z", "eventSource": "rolesanywhere.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "UpdateProfile", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "1.1.1.1", "userAgent": "test-agent", "requestParameters": { "durationSeconds": 3600, "managedPolicyArns": [ "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess", "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess" ], "name": "Updated Test Profile", "profileId": "0ace5b12-24b9-427e-a483-c55884852fbf", "sessionPolicy": "{\n \"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",\n \"Statement\":[\n {\n \"Effect\":\"Allow\",\n \"Action\":\"s3:ListObjects\",\n \"Resource\":\"*\"\n }\n ]\n}\n" }, "responseElements": { "profile": { "createdAt": "2022-07-01T18:11:27.380711Z", "createdBy": "arn:aws:sts::111122223333:assumed-role/Admin/test-session", "durationSeconds": 3600, "enabled": false, "managedPolicyArns": [ "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess", "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess" ], "name": "Updated Test Profile", "profileArn": "arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:111122223333:profile/0ace5b12-24b9-427e-a483-c55884852fbf", "profileId": "0ace5b12-24b9-427e-a483-c55884852fbf", "requireInstanceProperties": false, "roleArns": [ "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/test-role" ], "sessionPolicy": "{\n \"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",\n \"Statement\":[\n {\n \"Effect\":\"Allow\",\n \"Action\":\"s3:ListObjects\",\n \"Resource\":\"*\"\n }\n ]\n}\n", "updatedAt": "2022-07-01T18:11:27.936687Z" } }, "requestID": "ca28860f-504a-4f2d-9f3f-f9cfb4ba0491", "eventID": "a7bb90c3-c47b-4832-88e7-aeaccda21f1a", "readOnly": false, "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "managementEvent": true, "recipientAccountId": "111122223333", "eventCategory": "Management", "tlsDetails": { "clientProvidedHostHeader": "rolesanywhere.us-east-1.amazonaws.com" } }