AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C00) — Question 313

Which service is used by default to store the CloudTrail log files?

Answer options

• A. Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• B. Redshift
• C. Simple Storage Service (S3)
• D. Glacier

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS CloudTrail is designed to automatically deliver its recorded log files to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. While you can transition these logs to Amazon S3 Glacier later for cost-effective archiving, S3 remains the initial default storage location. Other options like EBS and Redshift are block storage and data warehousing services, respectively, and are not used as default destinations for CloudTrail logs.