Found a CloudTrail Bug: Here's the Fix

For those of you on the latest lab, we found a bug in AWS (for real). This email is only going out to people at this stage in the training.

It looks like we’ve discovered a bug in the CloudTrail console. This is NOT something that happened in my account when I was building the lab, but I have received multiple reports of the problem and have managed to recreate it in my second test account.

I’m getting this reported to AWS, but until then here’s a quick fix.

The Problem

If you see this, you’ve found the error:

We used to have to enable these services manually but AWS changed that and now the services are enabled via the console of that particular service. It looks like the CloudTrail console is failing if you go to change a trail to an org trail vs. creating an org trail from the start. I have gone through all the documentation and we should NOT have seen this, and not everyone does.

The Fix

Go to Organizations and then Services:

Then scroll down to CloudTrail and click on it. Then ignore the warnings and follow the process to enable.

Now go back and repeat the steps in the main lab to enable the trail. I’m adding these instructions to the lab on the web and in future emails, and will remove them when AWS fixes the bug.

Thanks, and sorry!

-Rich