How to create a VPC flow log and save it in AWS S3?

How to create a VPC flow log and save it in AWS S3?

September 14, 2020 / Nirav Shah

How To Create VPC Flow Logs And Publish In AWS S3

a.What are VPC flow logs?

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces within your VPC. Flow log data is then stored using Amazon CloudWatch Logs. And after you’ve created a flow log, you can view and retrieve its log data in Amazon CloudWatch.

Steps To Create Flow Logs

  • VPC level
  • Subnet level
  • Network interface level

How to create flow log?

Step 1

Sign in to your AWS account.

Step 2

Go to the VPC section and click on “Action” and create flow log.

There are two types of destination

  • Send to cloud watch log
  • Send to s3 bucket
  • Network interface level

Create flow logs aws s3

For the “Destination log group” you have to create a cloud watch log. If you don’t know how to create a cloud watch log, this Visit Amazon Cloudwatch Logs Guidelines  will help you.

Destination log group

Now if you click on “Send to an S3 bucket” you will see a screen as shown below.

Publish VPC flow logs to aws s3

If you have already created a bucket, then add the bucket ARN in the above section. After filling up information in all the above fields, just click on “create” button.

It can take around 10 minutes to add a log on the s3 bucket.

So that’s it for today’s blog please go to your s3 bucket and check the logs.

Also Read : VPC Endpoints with S3

FAQs:

1. How do I collect VPC flow logs?

2. Are CloudWatch logs stored in S3?

3. how to enable vpc flow logs in aws

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