Publish flow logs to Amazon Data Firehose
Flow logs can publish flow log data directly to Amazon Data Firehose. Amazon Data Firehose is a fully managed service that collects, transforms, and delivers real-time data streams into various Amazon data stores and analytics services. It handles the data ingestion on your behalf.
When it comes to VPC flow logs, Firehose can be useful. VPC flow logs capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. This data can be crucial for security monitoring, performance analysis, and regulatory compliance. However, managing the storage and processing of this continuous flow of log data can be a complex and resource-intensive task.
By integrating Firehose with your VPC flow logs, you can deliver this data to your preferred destination, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon OpenSearch Service. Firehose will scale to handle the ingestion, transformation, and delivery of your VPC flow logs, relieving you of the operational burden. This allows you to focus on analyzing the logs and deriving insights, rather than worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
Additionally, Firehose offers features like data transformation, compression, and encryption, which can enhance the efficiency and security of your VPC flow log processing pipeline. Using Firehose for VPC flow logs can simplify your data management and enable you to gain insights from your network traffic data.
When publishing to Amazon Data Firehose, flow log data is published to a Amazon Data Firehose delivery stream, in plain text format.
Pricing
Standard ingestion and delivery charges apply. For more information, open Amazon CloudWatch Pricing