AWS Config Reviews & Ratings 2024

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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.

AWS Config is perfect for cloud governance

9 out of 10

August 08, 2021

Incentivized

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 …

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

9 out of 10

May 10, 2021

Incentivized

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 …

AWS Config - Enforce, Evaluate, Remediate

8 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Incentivized

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 …

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

7 out of 10

March 27, 2019

Incentivized

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 …

AWS Config - ideal for AWS workloads

7 out of 10

February 07, 2019

Incentivized

AWS Config allows us to monitor our configuration of AWS resources, whether that be configuration history so we can view any changes which …

AWS Config for all governance and audit needs

8 out of 10

January 10, 2019

Incentivized

AWS Config is used to assess, audit, and evaluate the configuration of your AWS resources. It is implemented in many applications that use …

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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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No setup fee

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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
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Organizations
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Application Load Balancers

AWS Config Competitors

ServiceNow Now Platform
Optimizely Web Experimentation
ServiceNow IT Service Management
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Azure Automation & Control
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

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.

ServiceNow Now Platform, Optimizely Web Experimentation, and ServiceNow IT Service Management are common alternatives for AWS Config.

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

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Consultant in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Config is easy to use and set up in the environment. AWS C onfig helps in scenario where you need to be compliant and by integrating with a ticketing system all users will be notified if they are non-compliant.

Most Important Features

Its easy to use and easy to see compliant and non-compliant resources
Rules and sending audit report

Return on Investment

Cost if there are multiple accounts

Other Software Used

Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH), SAS Visual Analytics, Snowflake, Talend Cloud Integration, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

May 10, 2021

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

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Professional in Information Technology

Fund-Raising Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Most Important Features

Auditability
Troubleshooting: who did what when.

Return on Investment

Alerting on changes can be setup so issues can be solved quickly.

Alternatives Considered

As this is native to AWS, we didn't consider anything else. It checks and monitors AWS resources so to check and monitor any other services we use other software.

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

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

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.