Instance Creation

The initial provisioning and construction of a virtual machine (VM) or compute instance within a cloud infrastructure environment. This activity involves defining and allocating resources such as CPU, memory, storage, and networking to spin up a new compute instance. Examples:

• AWS: creating an EC2 instance using RunInstances API calls.
• Azure, creating a VM through the Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
• GCP, an instance.insert action recorded.

Data Collection Measures:

• AWS CloudTrail: CloudTrail logs stored in S3 or accessible via CloudWatch.
• Azure Activity Logs: Accessible in Azure Monitor or exported to a storage account.
• GCP Audit Logs: Logs Explorer or BigQuery.