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Cloudtrail should be enabled in all regions regardless of where your AWS resources are generally homed

Explanation

When creating Cloudtrail in the AWS Management Console the trail is configured by default to be multi-region, this isn’t the case with the Terraform resource. Cloudtrail should cover the full AWS account to ensure you can track changes in regions you are not actively operting in.

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the AWS063 check.

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "bad_example" {
  event_selector {
    read_write_type           = "All"
    include_management_events = true

    data_resource {
      type = "AWS::S3::Object"
      values = ["${data.aws_s3_bucket.important-bucket.arn}/"]
    }
  }
}

Secure Example

The following example will pass the AWS063 check.

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "good_example" {
  is_multi_region_trail = true

  event_selector {
    read_write_type           = "All"
    include_management_events = true

    data_resource {
      type = "AWS::S3::Object"
      values = ["${data.aws_s3_bucket.important-bucket.arn}/"]
    }
  }
}