cloudtrail:CreateTrail

Write

cloudtrail:CreateTrail is a Write access-level action in the cloudtrail service. Grants permission to create a trail that specifies the settings for delivery of log data to an Amazon S3 bucket

Resource types

ARNs that cloudtrail:CreateTrail can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:cloudtrail:${Region}:${Account}:trail/${TrailName}
trail

Condition keys

Keys you can use in the Condition block of a policy that grants cloudtrail:CreateTrail.

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by the tags attached to the resource

Dependent actions

To use cloudtrail:CreateTrail you may also need to grant:

Example IAM policy

A minimal policy that allows cloudtrail:CreateTrail. Replace "Resource": "*" with a specific ARN to follow least privilege.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCloudtrailCreateTrail",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudtrail:CreateTrail",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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cloudtrail:AddTags Tagging cloudtrail:CancelQuery Write cloudtrail:CreateChannel Write cloudtrail:CreateDashboard Write cloudtrail:CreateEventDataStore Write cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel Write cloudtrail:DeleteChannel Write cloudtrail:DeleteDashboard Write cloudtrail:DeleteEventDataStore Write cloudtrail:DeleteResourcePolicy Write cloudtrail:DeleteServiceLinkedChannel Write cloudtrail:DeleteTrail Write

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