The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Suite of cloud computing services from Amazon that make up an on-demand computing platform. Cloud Connector provides operational visibility into the security of your AWS environment. Based on the collected log information, USM Anywhere receives the data stored in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and Inventory, generates the related events for that data within USM Anywhere, and provides real-time alerting to identify malicious activity Activity in a system that exceeds or misuses that access in a manner that negatively affects the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the organization's information systems..

After you install and enable the AWS Cloud Connector, it communicates with USM Anywhere in the cloud about the data stored in your AWS environment. See The AWS Cloud Connector Deployment in USM Anywhere for more information.

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