Amazon S3 now generates AWS CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance operations

Amazon S3 Tables Maintenance Events in AWS CloudTrail

Amazon S3 now adds AWS CloudTrail events for table maintenance activities in Amazon S3 Tables. You can use AWS CloudTrail to track compaction and snapshot expiration operations performed by S3 Tables on your tables.

S3 Tables automatically performs maintenance to optimize query performance and lower costs of your tables stored in S3 table buckets. You can monitor and audit S3 Tables maintenance activities such as compaction and snapshot expiration as management events in AWS CloudTrail.

What to do

• Create a trail in the AWS CloudTrail console
• Filter for 'AwsServiceEvents' as the eventType
• Filter for 'TablesMaintenanceEvent' as the eventName

AWS CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance are now available in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables are available.

Source: AWS release notes

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