Category: AWS Config

AWS Config tracks configuration changes across your AWS resources and AWS Organizations. AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to detect changes and records them as configuration items (CIs). As your infrastructure grows and becomes more complex, choosing the appropriate recording frequency becomes critical for maintaining operational visibility, meeting compliance requirements, and supporting your security posture. Since the launch of the periodic recording […]

In today’s cloud-native world, incident response teams face overwhelming challenges. When critical applications fail, engineers must sift through mountains of observability data across multiple services; all while under intense pressure to restore service quickly. This manual correlation process is time-consuming, error-prone, and often delays resolution, resulting in extended outages and frustrated customers. Traditional monitoring tools […]

Enterprise organizations managing multiple AWS accounts face complexity as their cloud infrastructure scales. The exponential growth in resources, coupled with diverse configuration requirements across different business units, creates significant challenges in maintaining effective oversight of AWS environments. AWS Config is a service that continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources […]

We are incredibly excited to see you at AWS re:Inforce, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 16-18, 2025. This year’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance track features sessions on automating compliance, enhancing risk visibility, using generative AI for business growth, and maintaining security at scale, including 5 breakout sessions, 8 builder sessions, 7 chalk talks, 2 code […]

Introduction Organizations face unique compliance requirements across their AWS resources and accounts. While AWS Config provides managed rules, many organizations need custom rules and automated remediation capabilities that can scale across their AWS Organization. This blog post demonstrates how to use AWS Config custom conformance pack to deploy and manage custom rules with remediation actions […]

In this post, we will highlight how AWS Config can be used to help organizations implement capabilities related to management and governance, security, and more. Have you ever wondered how to maintain a centralized inventory of resources across your AWS accounts? Do you need to quickly identify the unencrypted resources in your AWS environment? Do you […]

Overview A key benefit of using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is the ability to pay only for the services you consume. This granular control and elastic model enables you to achieve substantial savings compared to on-premise infrastructure. The practice of ensuring you are getting the most value for your investment, and a foundational pillar […]

At AWS, we are committed to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible. We also work to enable our customers to use the benefits of the cloud to better monitor and optimize their IT infrastructure. As reported in The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services, our infrastructure is 3.6 […]

Introduction AWS Organizations provides the capability to centrally manage and govern your AWS environment. As an organization, you can delegate administration of specific AWS services integrated with AWS Organizations to authorized individuals or teams. Implementing effective controls for these delegated administrators is essential to ensuring the security, compliance, and operational efficiency of your AWS environment. […]

Today, we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to AWS Resource Explorer that delivers a unified view of centralized resource insights and properties from AWS services. With the enhanced Resource Explorer experience, relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services is centralized for supported resource types. Customers use keyword-based search to return a list […]