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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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For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://aws.amazon.com/config/pricing

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 29, 2021

AWS Config - Enforce, Evaluate, Remediate

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Administrator in Information Technology
Gambling & Casinos Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
The specific situation we find it useful to use AWS Config is to apply config rules to enforce certain audit requirements, from ISO 9001/27001 for example. This means we know that no resources can be created that will breach these audit requirements. However, as the [number] of rules start to grow it can become cumbersome to manage.
Most Important Features
  • Rule enforcement
  • Auto remediation
  • Reporting
Return on Investment
  • Enforcing audit requirements
  • Easy to set up alerting when there are rule breaches
  • Auto remediation reduces the manual policing of such breaches
Alternatives Considered
I have not assessed any other tools that do a similar function to AWS Config.
Other Software Used
February 07, 2019

AWS Config - ideal for AWS workloads

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Professional in Finance and Accounting
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
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).
Likelihood to Recommend
Ideal for compliance monitoring - so providing easy visibility on what volumes aren't encrypted, S3 buckets requests only come from HTTPS sites, RDS is encrypted at rest by default.

There are lots of useful scenarios whereby we use this. Other examples [of how] we use AWS Config include Redshift cluster configuration check, cloud trial is enabled.
Return on Investment
  • Security awareness. With multiple teams deploying provides easy visibility on any security risks. Security breaches would have a substantial impact on business so a vital investment with little costs.
Alternatives Considered
Products don't appear [in the list] but looked at Azure Functions and Service Bus but as per criticisms of AWS Config does enforce vendor lock-in - AWS Config is only used for AWS workloads.
Other Software Used
Performance
9
Would rate lower for other workloads but for AWS workloads its simple to set up, cost effective and customisable. Primary use case is compliance from a governance perspective.
Ease of Integration
10
With AWS workloads this is seamless.
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