EKS Auth

eventName	Description	Sample	Rule
any	Catch-all entry for EKS Auth rules that match the service but not a specific eventName.	N	N
AssumeRoleForPodIdentity	AssumeRoleForPodIdentity recorded by CloudTrail for Amazon EKS Auth. Observed in real CloudTrail; no AWS SDK operation model documents it, so no description is available from the SDK.	N	N

any: EKS Auth (catch-all)

Service: eks-auth

Description

Catch-all entry for EKS Auth rules that match the service but not a specific eventName.

AssumeRoleForPodIdentity

Service: eks-auth

Description

AssumeRoleForPodIdentity recorded by CloudTrail for Amazon EKS Auth. Observed in real CloudTrail; no AWS SDK operation model documents it, so no description is available from the SDK.

Example CloudTrail Event #

This is a projected export row, not a complete CloudTrail record: it shows only the envelope columns a SIEM export retained. The export never carried userIdentity, requestParameters, responseElements, sourceIPAddress, recipientAccountId, eventCategory, so their absence here says nothing about the real event. Account identifiers, ARNs and endpoint hostnames in eventID, requestID, resources, tlsDetails, userAgent are replaced with the placeholders AWS uses in its own documentation, so those values are structurally real but not the originals. errorMessage is withheld: it is free-form prose that names customer resources, which no substitution rule can find reliably. eventTime is withheld because the export renders it in the exporting system's local timezone rather than the UTC a CloudTrail record carries.

{
  "eventVersion": "1.11",
  "eventID": "7e3858a6-48b6-4849-9946-1f0f73eb7fa9",
  "eventSource": "eks-auth.amazonaws.com",
  "eventName": "AssumeRoleForPodIdentity",
  "awsRegion": "us-east-1",
  "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
  "readOnly": true,
  "managementEvent": true,
  "requestID": "e177202c-53d1-4f18-a1c3-df25eb52aa10",
  "userAgent": "aws-sdk-go-v2/1.39.2 ua/2.1 os/linux lang/go#1.26.1 md/GOOS#linux md/GOARCH#amd64 api/eksauth#1.11.7 m/0,E",
  "errorCode": "AccessDenied",
  "tlsDetails": {
    "tlsVersion": "TLSv1.3",
    "cipherSuite": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256",
    "clientProvidedHostHeader": "example.us-east-1.api.aws"
  }
}