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5 CloudFormation resource types available for CloudTrail.

Channel

AWS::CloudTrail::Channel

A channel receives events from a specific source (such as an on-premises storage solution or application, or a partner event data source), and delivers the events to one or more event data stores. You

Dashboard

AWS::CloudTrail::Dashboard

The Amazon CloudTrail dashboard resource allows customers to manage managed dashboards and create custom dashboards. You can manually refresh custom and managed dashboards. For custom dashboards, you

EventDataStore

AWS::CloudTrail::EventDataStore

A storage lake of event data against which you can run complex SQL-based queries. An event data store can include events that you have logged on your account from the last 7 to 2557 or 3653 days (abou

ResourcePolicy

AWS::CloudTrail::ResourcePolicy

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudTrail::ResourcePolicy

Trail

AWS::CloudTrail::Trail

Creates a trail that specifies the settings for delivery of log data to an Amazon S3 bucket. A maximum of five trails can exist in a region, irrespective of the region in which they were created.

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