“ I have checked the documents of AWS for investigating aws resource activity and usage patterns with amazon detective. Amazon detective makes it easy to trace logs of resources and further investigate it. In terms of cost, the solution is cheaper and secure.”
Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis and graph theory to build a dataset that you can use to conduct more efficient security investigations.
In this post, you will experience the investigating aws resource activity and usage patterns with amazon detective. Here I have kept the same account for detective service enabled and also we can check the resource usage track in investigation.
Architecture Overview

The architecture diagram shows the overall deployment architecture with data flow, detective and s3 bucket.
Solution Overview
The blog post consists of the following phases:
- Resource Usage in Amazon Detective
- Output of Detective Resource Usage
Phase 1: Resource Usage in Amazon Detective
- Open the Amazon detective console, click on the get started. Enable the amazon detective in the account. Once the amazon detective is enabled, you can check the success resources usage in the account summary.
Phase 2: Output of Detective Resource Usage
Clean-up
Disable detective and delete s3 bucket.
Pricing
I review the pricing and estimated cost of this example.
Cost of Amazon Detective =
Amazon Detective USE1-PaidDataAnalyzed-Bytes = USD 2.00 per GB for the first 1,000GB / month of data analyzed US East(N Virginia) region = 0GB = $0.00
Cost of Simple Storage Service = $0.00
Total Cost = $0.00
Summary
In this post, I showed “investigating aws resource activity and usage patterns with amazon detective”.
For more details on Amazon Detective, Checkout Get started Amazon Detective, open the Amazon Detective console. To learn more, read the Amazon Detective documentation.
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