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by cddotdotslash 1966 days ago
It's a "hidden" (in that it's not documented very well or advertised much by AWS) feature of the AWS SDKs. I think it was likely added for debugging purposes originally, but security tools have started to hook into it as a more local and compete version of the kinds of logs you'd see in CloudTrail.

I've used it mostly for debugging and temporary monitoring of service calls.

https://summitroute.com/blog/2020/05/25/client_side_monitori...