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* Their are two ways one can get visibility into network traffic in AWS:

  1. [Amazon VPC Flow Logs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html)
  2. [Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/mirroring/what-is-traffic-mirroring.html)

* This session focuses on [Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/mirroring/what-is-traffic-mirroring.html). Before we dive deep into Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring, we briefly go over [Amazon VPC Flow Logs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html)