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AWS Config

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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?

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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Product Details

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

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AWS Config Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific

Frequently Asked Questions

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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The most common users of AWS Config are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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August 08, 2021

AWS Config is perfect for cloud governance

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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
May 10, 2021

If you have AWS workload, definitely use AWS config for compliance monitoring

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Fund-Raising Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Gambling & Casinos Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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
March 27, 2019

AWS Config is the only one you need for your AWS infrastructure monitoring

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
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