[id="{beatname_lc}-overview"]
[role="xpack"]
== {beatname_uc} overview

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<titleabbrev>Overview</titleabbrev>
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{beatname_uc} is an Elastic https://www.elastic.co/products/beats[Beat] that you
deploy on your serverless environment to collect events generated by cloud
services and ship the events to {es}.

This version supports deploying {beatname_uc} as an AWS Lambda service and
responds to the triggers defined for the following event sources:

* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html[CloudWatch Logs]
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/welcome.html[Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)]
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html[Kinesis]

include::{libbeat-dir}/docs/shared-libbeat-description.asciidoc[]

