AWS Config is perfect for cloud governance
We use AWS Config to keep track of all changes to our resources by invoking the Describe or API calls. It helps us to provide a detailed …
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What is AWS Config?
Amazon Web Services offers AWS Config, a service that provides monitoring and assessment of AWS resource configurations to support compliance auditing, change management and troubleshooting, with resource histories and comparison of historical configurations against planned configurations.
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What is AWS Config?
AWS Config is a service that enables users to assess, audit, and
evaluate the configurations of AWS resources. Config continuously monitors
and records AWS resource configurations and allows users to automate the
evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With
Config, users can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS
resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine overall compliance against the configurations specified in internal
guidelines. This enables users to simplify compliance auditing, security
analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting.
AWS Config Features
- Supported: Configuration history of AWS resources
- Supported: Configuration history of software
- Supported: Resource relationships tracking
- Supported: Configurable and customizable rules
- Supported: Automatic remediation with Config rules
- Supported: Conformance packs
- Supported: Multi-account, multi-region data aggregation
- Supported: Custom configuration
- Supported: Configuration snapshots
- Supported: Cloud governance dashboard
- Supported: Partner solutions
AWS Config Videos
AWS Config: Assess, Audit and Evaluate your AWS Resources
Automated Compliance and Governance: AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail
Essentials: Introducing Config Rules
AWS Config Integrations
- Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk)
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Systems Manager
- Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
- Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Application Load Balancers
- AWS Organizations
AWS Config Competitors
- ServiceNow Now Platform
- CloudBees CI (formerly CloudBees Core)
- Optimizely Web Experimentation
- Salt Open Source Automation Engine
- Azure Automation & Control
- ServiceNow IT Service Management
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Puppet Enterprise (formerly Puppet Data Center Automation)
AWS Config Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific |
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What is AWS Config?
Amazon Web Services offers AWS Config, a service that provides monitoring and assessment of AWS resource configurations to support compliance auditing, change management and troubleshooting, with resource histories and comparison of historical configurations against planned configurations.
What are AWS Config's top competitors?
ServiceNow Now Platform, CloudBees CI (formerly CloudBees Core), and Optimizely Web Experimentation are common alternatives for AWS Config.
What is AWS Config's best feature?
Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 9.6.
Who uses AWS Config?
The most common users of AWS Config are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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August 08, 2021
AWS Config is perfect for cloud governance
We use AWS Config to keep track of all changes to our resources by invoking the Describe or API calls. It helps us to provide a detailed view of the resources associated with our AWS account.
- A detailed view of the resources associated within the account
- How resources are configured
- Enables us to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of our AWS resources
- Sometime the app is slow
- Cost is factor when there are multiple accounts associated
Having migrated to the AWS cloud over the last year and a half, we started with AWS from the beginning. It is great to check if your implemented resources align with what you want and/or AWS best practices and to keep a history of all the configuration changes. Both are very helpful for any compliance question you might encounter.
- Great to track config changes and helpful for troubleshooting.
- Great for compliance questions you might get.
- It's only AWS, no third party.
- Not the most intuitive interface, but with a little getting used to it is OK.
April 29, 2021
AWS Config - Enforce, Evaluate, Remediate
We use AWS Config to ensure our resources on AWS adhere to AWS best practices. It is used to assess and evaluate your AWS services and their configuration. There is also the option for automatic remediation when a service is found to be breaching a rule. AWS Config is a great tool for [the] governance of your AWS accounts.
- The ability to track changes in AWS is paramount, AWS config allows you to do this
- Allows the auditing of an AWS account
- Can view history of an account that has AWS config enabled
- Vendor [lock-in] as this is only available on AWS
- [The] interface is dated and is [in] need of updating by AWS
- Graphing is [...] not the easiest to configure
We use AWS config to set a ground rule of our AWS configuration and resources. Since we are using AWS S3 for a lot of our critical resources, AWS config makes it easy for us to evaluate the configuration of those resources as well as tracking the configuration history to see whenever any configuration changes cause an issue to our service.
- Track many AWS server configuration
- Faster and easier audit process of your AWS services configuration
- Keeping history of changes means its easy to spot any issues that occur whenever any changes happened
- The interface is not really user friendly and the configuration option is not easy to use either
- Only available for resources within AWS
- Some service can be quite costly, we need to prioritise which service that we would apply AWS config to and leave the less important service without AWS config monitoring
February 07, 2019
AWS Config - ideal for AWS workloads
AWS Config allows us to monitor our configuration of AWS resources, whether that be configuration history so we can view any changes which might have caused an issue; or if we want to be able to replicate workloads in a previous configuration.
This also allows us to save all our configurations within an S3 bucket.
We get alerts on some workloads via SNS when applicable.
This also allows us to save all our configurations within an S3 bucket.
We get alerts on some workloads via SNS when applicable.
- We are able to use AWS config to track changes within our environments.
- We use AWS Config across multiple accounts (environment segregation) whilst maintaining a central (fully backed up because stores in S3 managed repository.
- Vendor lock-in, no easy migration path for example if you want to move some workloads to Azure, you'd not be able to lift and shift.
- Only at an AWS resource perspective - cannot do desired state configuration at an OS level (which makes sense but be good if you could even as a separate feature within AWS Config).
January 10, 2019
AWS Config for all governance and audit needs
AWS Config is used to assess, audit, and evaluate the configuration of your AWS resources. It is implemented in many applications that use AWS to deploy. It helps in assessment, operational auditing and general governance of AWS resources.
- It can help you define rules for provisioning and configuring of your AWS. We use it for this purpose.
- It maintains configuration history. So you can use the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI to obtain details of past configurations
- It gives you a configuration snapshot of all of your AWS resources and you can store it in AWS S3.
- You can integrate it with AWS CloudTrail to correlate configuration changes to particular events in your account.
- Dashboarding and graphs should be better and more configurable.
- Some time the Config Rules are difficult to understand and configure. They could be made easy or have GUI to configure them. I know it is difficult to build but that would be a good win.