What is AWS AWS config?
What is AWS AWS config?
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations.
What is an AWS config configuration item?
AWS Config creates a configuration item whenever it detects a change to a resource type that it is recording. For example, if AWS Config is recording Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Config creates a configuration item whenever a bucket is created, updated, or deleted.
How do I find my AWS config?
Use the describe-configuration-recorder-status command to verify that the AWS Config has started recording the configurations of the supported AWS resources existing in your account. The recorded configurations are delivered to the specified delivery channel.
What are features of AWS config?
AWS Config features
- Configuration history of AWS resources.
- Configuration history of software.
- Resource relationships tracking.
- Configurable and customizable rules.
- Conformance packs.
- Multi-account, multi-region data aggregation.
- Extensibility.
- Configuration snapshots.
What is difference between CloudWatch and CloudTrail?
The Difference between CloudWatch and CloudTrail CloudWatch focuses on the activity of AWS services and resources, reporting on their health and performance. On the other hand, CloudTrail is a log of all actions that have taken place inside your AWS environment.
Is AWS config expensive?
AWS Config costs money, although not a lot at $0.003/resource/month. Where it does get expensive is if you start using AWS Config Rules. Those rules will cost you $2/rule/month/region with some bulk discounts. There are 82 managed AWS Config Rules (so not including ones you create yourself).
Is AWS config real time?
For each resource type that AWS Config records, it sends a configuration history file every six hours. Each configuration history file contains details about the resources that changed in that six-hour period.
How do I change my instance configuration?
To edit an instance’s configuration
- Stop the instance, if it is not already stopped.
- On the Instances page, click an instance name to display the Details page.
- Click Edit to display the edit page.
- Edit the instance’s configuration, as appropriate.
How do I add AWS credentials?
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/ .
- In the navigation pane, choose Users.
- Choose the name of the user whose access keys you want to create, and then choose the Security credentials tab.
- In the Access keys section, choose Create access key.
What is a config rule?
PDF. An AWS Config rule represents an AWS Lambda function that you create for a custom rule or a predefined function for an AWS Config managed rule. The function evaluates configuration items to assess whether your AWS resources comply with your desired configurations.
