The following example shows that an IAM user named Mateo ran the aws ec2 start-instances command to call the Amazon EC2 StartInstances action for instances i-EXAMPLE56126103cb and i-EXAMPLEaff4840c22.

cloud-trail-example.txt

{"Records": [{
    "eventVersion": "1.08",
    "userIdentity": {
        "type": "IAMUser",
        "principalId": "EXAMPLE6E4XEGITWATV6R",
        "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Mateo",
        "accountId": "123456789012",
        "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
        "userName": "Mateo",
        "sessionContext": {
            "sessionIssuer": {},
            "webIdFederationData": {},
            "attributes": {
                "creationDate": "2023-07-19T21:11:57Z",
                "mfaAuthenticated": "false"
            }
        }
    },
    "eventTime": "2023-07-19T21:17:28Z",
    "eventSource": "ec2.amazonaws.com",
    "eventName": "StartInstances",
    "awsRegion": "us-east-1",
    "sourceIPAddress": "192.0.2.0",
    "userAgent": "aws-cli/2.13.5 Python/3.11.4 Linux/4.14.255-314-253.539.amzn2.x86_64 exec-env/CloudShell exe/x86_64.amzn.2 prompt/off command/ec2.start-instances",
    "requestParameters": {
        "instancesSet": {
            "items": [
                {
                    "instanceId": "i-EXAMPLE56126103cb"
                },
                {
                    "instanceId": "i-EXAMPLEaff4840c22"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "responseElements": {
        "requestId": "e4336db0-149f-4a6b-844d-EXAMPLEb9d16",
        "instancesSet": {
            "items": [
                {
                    "instanceId": "i-EXAMPLEaff4840c22",
                    "currentState": {
                        "code": 0,
                        "name": "pending"
                    },
                    "previousState": {
                        "code": 80,
                        "name": "stopped"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "instanceId": "i-EXAMPLE56126103cb",
                    "currentState": {
                        "code": 0,
                        "name": "pending"
                    },
                    "previousState": {
                        "code": 80,
                        "name": "stopped"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "requestID": "e4336db0-149f-4a6b-844d-EXAMPLEb9d16",
    "eventID": "e755e09c-42f9-4c5c-9064-EXAMPLE228c7",
    "readOnly": false,
    "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
    "managementEvent": true,
    "recipientAccountId": "123456789012",
    "eventCategory": "Management",
     "tlsDetails": {
        "tlsVersion": "TLSv1.2",
        "cipherSuite": "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256",
        "clientProvidedHostHeader": "ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"
    },
    "sessionCredentialFromConsole": "true"
}]}