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AWS Config overview

AWS Config overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Config overview

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we'll talk about the AWS Config service. At the end of the video, you'll be able to understand how AWS Config helps with the audit and governance of your AWS resources, explain how the service works, and evaluate scenarios where AWS Config can be applicable. So let's start right in. Let's think about the resources that you manage in AWS, like EC2 instances, S3 buckets, application load balancers, and more. As an infrastructure administrator, having an inventory of your AWS resources where you can collectively manage resource configurations can help you secure your AWS environment and will ensure that your resources comply with the internal guidelines that your company has set. There are various ways to do this. You can either use third-party tools or CLI scripts, but AWS provides an out-of-the-box tool to manage your resource configurations in one interface. And that is the AWS Config.…

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