tags: #publish
links: [[AWS]]
created: 2021-07-22 Thu
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# AWS Config
Introspection of AWS resources:
- Current relationships of resources
- History
Allows validation of settings, config snapshots, historical info, notification of changes, querying of relationships.
Some examples and use cases:
- Detect misconfigurations
- Pre-validate config changes to see what else is affected
- Security analysis, e.g. see what is using a particular security group
- Audit/compliance
[[AWS Config Managed Rules]]