Retention Periods

Question 1

CloudWatch Metrics default retention period

Answer 1

15 months (extendable to 3 years)

Question 2

CloudWatch Logs default retention period

Answer 2

Indefinite (dependent on log group retention)

Question 3

CloudTrail default retention period

Answer 3

90 days (extendable to 7-10 years using CloudTrail lake)

Question 4

S3 object retention period

Answer 4

Object lifetime (no default retention; configurable)

Question 5

EBS Snapshot default retention period

Answer 5

Manual deletion or retention policies (no default)

Question 6

RDS Snapshot default retention period

Answer 6

Manual deletion or retention policies (no default)

Question 7

Lambda function log retention period

Answer 7

30 days (extendable using CloudWatch Logs)

Question 8

API Gateway log retention period

Answer 8

30 days (extendable using CloudWatch Logs)

Question 9

VPC Flow Log retention period

Answer 9

2-365 days (configurable)

Question 10

SQS message retention period default and what is the range to set it to?

Answer 10

default is 4 days. It can be from 1 min to 14 days

Question 11

You can configure a Kinesis Data Stream to keep records for a maximum of ……………… days.

Answer 11

365