What does this small section of a CloudFormation template do?

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FlowLog:
Type: AWS::EC2::FlowLog
Properties:
DeliverLogsPermissionArn: !GetAtt IamRole.Arn
LogGroupName: FlowLogsGroup
ResourceId: !Ref LogVpcId
ResourceType: VPC
TrafficType: ALL

  • It writes the VPC network flow logs to the CloudWatch FlowLogsGroup log group. You could use this to inspect the network connections of your VPC.
  • It logs all of the network traffic within a VPC except Instance IDs defined by LogVpcID and logs it to the CloudWatch FlowLogsGroup log group.
  • It logs all the network traffic going to and from a single EC2 instance into the CloudWatch FlowLogsGroup log group. You could use this to inspect suspicious network traffic coming into an EC2 instance.
  • It logs all of the DNS requests made by resources within a VPC and logs them to the CloudWatch FlowLogsGroup. Use this to diagnose DNS lookup errors within your environment.
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