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AWS Config

AWS Config - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Config

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- [Instructor] Another interesting utility that could be quite useful in managing compliance and figuring out what has been installed and changed in your AWS account or across an AWS organization is a service called AWS Config. Ultimately, AWS Config assesses, audits, and evaluates the infrastructure that is deployed in an AWS account such as networks, subnets, EC2 instances, the infrastructure components that we typically install. So you can think of it first of all, as a reporting tool, gives you a detailed view of the configuration of your AWS services in your account. It runs on a schedule, it has historical reporting. So there's that. That's kind of useful. Now, you may be thinking, didn't CloudTrail hold on to everything that was created in my account? And that's true, it did, but it wasn't the same reporting that Config carries out. So if I have a reporting tool, what if I could take that information that is…

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