AWS Config is a fully managed AWS service that helps you capture the configuration history for your AWS resources, maintain resource inventory, audit, and evaluate changes in resource configuration, and enables security and governance by integrating notifications with these changes. You can use it to discover AWS resources in your account, continuously monitor and evaluate resource configuration against desired resource configuration, export configuration details for your resource inventory, and find out the configuration details for a resource at given point in time.
A resource is any object that you create, update or delete in AWS, such as an EC2 instance, a S3 bucket, a security group, or an EBS volume. AWS Config is used to assess compliance as per internal guidelines for maintaining resource configurations. It enables compliance auditing, security analysis, resource...
