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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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  • 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.

The most common users of AWS Config are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
To keep track of changes and to answer many compliance issues this is a life-saver. AWS does a good job providing tools like this. Any AWS workload should be monitored with AWS Config. It even is great for troubleshooting and seeing who changed what at what time.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
It's really good if your infrastructure services is all in AWS, that means everything could be audited and monitored using AWS config. You also can create alarms to notify you or your team about any changes on your AWS resources which is very useful to prevent abuse if you have a fairly large team. It's also very useful whenever some third party wants to audit your AWS resources, if you have a fairly comprehensive AWS config configured, the auditing process will be easy since they only need to look at your AWS config setup.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have multiple resources in your AWS environment then AWS Config can provide you with audit, governance, and comparison of any changes to your resource configuration over time. You can create alerts to be notified via AWS SNS if any configuration changes, which is very useful for development teams. Governance in an organization, like “Who made the change?”, “From what IP address?” is a very useful audit and operational governance tool.
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