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     2  You can do real-time monitoring of API calls by directing CloudTrail logs to CloudWatch Logs and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms.     
     3  Routing tables route network traffic between subnets and to network gateways.                                                                   
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     5  CIS recommends that you create a metric filter and alarm for changes to route tables. Monitoring these changes helps ensure that all VPC traffic flows through an expected path.
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     7  ### Impact
     8  Route tables control the flow of network traffic, changes could be made to maliciously allow egress of data or external ingress. Without alerting, this could go unnoticed.
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    13  ### Links
    14  - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudwatch-alarms-for-cloudtrail.html
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