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Session - Amazon GuardDuty

Session

Contains information about the authenticated session.

Contents

createdTime

The timestamp for when the session was created.

In AWS CloudTrail, you can find this value as userIdentity.sessionContext.attributes.creationDate.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

issuer

Identifier of the session issuer.

In AWS CloudTrail, you can find this value as userIdentity.sessionContext.sessionIssuer.arn.

Type: String

Required: No

mfaStatus

Indicates whether or not multi-factor authencation (MFA) was used during authentication.

In AWS CloudTrail, you can find this value as userIdentity.sessionContext.attributes.mfaAuthenticated.

Type: String

Valid Values: ENABLED | DISABLED

Required: No

uid

The unique identifier of the session.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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