entity

The entity for which to retrieve change events. This specifies the service, resource, or other entity whose event history you want to examine.

This is a string-to-string map. It can include the following fields.

  • Type designates the type of object this is.

  • ResourceType specifies the type of the resource. This field is used only when the value of the Type field is Resource or AWS::Resource.

  • Name specifies the name of the object. This is used only if the value of the Type field is Service, RemoteService, or AWS::Service.

  • Identifier identifies the resource objects of this resource. This is used only if the value of the Type field is Resource or AWS::Resource.

  • Environment specifies the location where this object is hosted, or what it belongs to.

  • AwsAccountId specifies the account where this object is in.

Below is an example of a service.

{ "Type": "Service", "Name": "visits-service", "Environment": "petclinic-test" }

Below is an example of a resource.

{ "Type": "AWS::Resource", "ResourceType": "AWS::DynamoDB::Table", "Identifier": "Customers" }