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Which AWS feature provides an audit-trail of every IAM principal action across the AWS account, used as primary evidence during incident response?
AAWS Snowball
BAmazon Route 53
CAWS CloudTrail (Management + Data + Insights events)
DAmazon EBS
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. AWS CloudTrail (Management + Data + Insights events)
CloudTrail is AWS's API audit log (per SCS-C02 §1.2, §2.3). The others aren't audit logs.
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