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IT professionals and developers seeking a solution to record and evaluate configurations of your AWS resources
About 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. With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting. AWS Config is designed to be your primary tool to perform configuration audit and compliance verification of both your AWS and third-party resources. You can publish the configuration of third-party resources such as GitHub repositories, Microsoft Active Directory resources, or any on-premises server into AWS.
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$0.001 per rule evaluation
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Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
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