How to Quickly Analyze CloudFront Cloud Logs in Amazon S3

CloudFront logging and monitoring is important for gaining visibility into network traffic and content delivery performance, allowing you to troubleshoot issues with your website by looking at historical logs for anomalies such as DDoS attacks or suspicious network activity. CloudFront generates four types of log files: access logs (standard logs), real-time logs, edge function logs, and administrative logs, each serving different purposes and challenges in analysis. Analyzing these logs can be complex due to varying formats and the need for data transformation, but solutions like ChaosSearch enable users to analyze CloudFront logs directly from Amazon S3 without costly data movement or complexity, providing quick insights into network and administrative activity.