CloudTrail Lake will no longer be open to new customers starting May 31, 2026¶

Description¶

CloudTrail Lake will no longer be open to new customers starting May 31, 2026. If you would like to use CloudTrail Lake, sign up prior to that date. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see CloudTrail Lake availability change.

Creates a channel for CloudTrail to ingest events from a partner or external source. After you create a channel, a CloudTrail Lake event data store can log events from the partner or source that you specify.

Usage¶

cloudtrail_create_channel(Name, Source, Destinations, Tags)

Arguments¶

• Name

  [required] The name of the channel.

• Source

  [required] The name of the partner or external event source. You cannot change this name after you create the channel. A maximum of one channel is allowed per source.

  A source can be either Custom for all valid non-Amazon Web Services events, or the name of a partner event source. For information about the source names for available partners, see Additional information about integration partners in the CloudTrail User Guide.

• Destinations

  [required] One or more event data stores to which events arriving through a channel will be logged.

• Tags

  A list of tags.

Value¶

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  ChannelArn = "string",
  Name = "string",
  Source = "string",
  Destinations = list(
    list(
      Type = "EVENT_DATA_STORE"|"AWS_SERVICE",
      Location = "string"
    )
  ),
  Tags = list(
    list(
      Key = "string",
      Value = "string"
    )
  )
)

Request syntax¶

svc$create_channel(
  Name = "string",
  Source = "string",
  Destinations = list(
    list(
      Type = "EVENT_DATA_STORE"|"AWS_SERVICE",
      Location = "string"
    )
  ),
  Tags = list(
    list(
      Key = "string",
      Value = "string"
    )
  )
)