Assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your resources

Why AWS Config?

Learn more about AWS Config. AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

Benefits of AWS Config

Manage resource configuration changes

Continually assess, monitor, and record resource configuration changes to simplify change management.

Evaluate configurations against desired state

Audit and evaluate compliance of your resource configurations with your organization’s policies on a continual basis.

Simplify troubleshooting and remediation

Simplify operational troubleshooting by correlating configuration changes to particular events in your account.

Use cases

Streamline operational troubleshooting and change management

Discover resources that exist in your account or publish the configuration data of third-party resources into AWS Config, record their configurations, and capture any changes to quickly troubleshoot operational issues.

Deploy a compliance-as-code framework

Codify your compliance requirements as AWS Config rules and author remediation actions, automating the assessment of your resource configurations across your organization.

Continually audit security monitoring and analysis

Evaluate resource configurations for potential vulnerabilities, and review your configuration history after potential incidents to examine your security posture.