Amazon VPC just made auditing and visibility easier!
AWS has enhanced Cloud Trail logging to now include default VPC resources that are created automatically when you create or delete a VPC.
This includes:
- ✅ Default Security Groups
- ✅ Default Network ACLs
- ✅ Default Route Tables
🔍 What Was the Problem Before?
Before this update:
- Cloud Trail only logged user-initiated resource creation (i.e., what you explicitly created).
- Default resources created automatically during VPC setup weren’t logged.
- Auditing and compliance teams had to manually track these defaults across accounts.
💡 What’s Better Now?
With this new enhancement:
- Cloud Trail will now log the creation and deletion of default VPC resources.
- Events are visible directly in the Cloud Trail console.
- You get full lifecycle visibility into all critical network components, whether created by you or by AWS.
🧾 Example Use Case
✅ Security and Compliance Auditing
Now you can:
- Detect automated resource creation (like default Security Groups).
- Ensure consistent network configurations across environments.
- Respond faster to infrastructure changes or misconfiguration.
📌 Where to See This?
Head to:
- AWS Console → Cloud Trail → Event History
- Filter by events related to CreateVpc, DeleteVpc, and associated sub-resources
🛡️ Why This Matters
If you're in:
- 🛡️ Security operations
- 🧾 Governance and compliance
- 🔧 Infrastructure monitoring
…this update gives you deeper insight and control over your VPC resources without relying on manual tracking or custom logging logic.
🚀 Final Thoughts
This is a subtle but powerful improvement for teams that care about auditability, security, and clean network architecture.
💬 Have you set up Cloud Trail alerts for your VPC events?
Let’s talk in the comments!
Top comments (3)
honestly love seeing stuff like this get added, makes my life so much easier tbh - ever feel like these little changes are what actually add up over time?
So glad AWS finally added logging for those defaults, saves me a lot of manual checks! Have you had any surprises after enabling this?
Just we have enabled this things. Have to check!