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💼 4.10 Ensure all AWS-managed web front-end services have access logging enabled (Manual)

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Ensure that access logging is enabled for all AWS-managed web front-end services that terminate or front HTTP(S) traffic, including Amazon CloudFront distributions, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), and Amazon API Gateway REST/HTTP API stages with public endpoints. Access logs must be enabled with delivery to a designated S3 bucket or CloudWatch Logs destination that is protected with appropriate access controls.

This control requires logging of request details such as client IP address, timestamp, HTTP method, requested URI, response status code, bytes transferred, and user agent for every request processed by these services. CloudTrail provides management event logging for these resources, but access logs are required to capture the actual HTTP request/response activity at the network edge layers.

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